ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 47 Fleer, vb. to laugh mockingly, or to have a counteDance expressive of such laughter. Fleet, vh. to skim milk, or other liquid having a scum. The word is most likely connected with fleety the old form of float. Fleeting-dish, ah, the dish used to skim the milk. Flegg'd, or Fligg'd, pt or adj, fledged : as of birds. Flep, sh, the bottom lip. * He hings his flep this morninV *. e. he looks cross. Halliwell gives the word flepper. Fleteher-houBe, the name of a form-house in the neighbourhood. A fletcher is an arrow-maker. Fleyk, sb, (pronounced flake ; gl. flaik), an article of wickerwork in the form of a gate, used for opening the staple, and beatui^ the dust out of wool^ wiiich was placed on it and beaten with two sticks. See Swinging. Also a gate set up in a gap, a hurdle. Thoresby spells it as above, but Bay has fleack. FUok, the pronunciation of flitch (of bacon). So pick for pitchy &c. Flit, vb, to move from one house to another. Flite, vb, (pronounced flaut), to scold, brawl, &c. : both active and neuter. *Au've yeer'd *em flaut thee; tha's been doin' some' at wrang.' Occurs in Lindsay's Complaint^ 11. 31, 32 : ' I will not fli^, that I conclude. For crabbmg of thy celsitude.' Again in his Supplication in ContemplcUion of Side TatU :
- Without their faults be soon amended,
My flytingy sir, shall ne'er be ended ; But wald your grace my counsel tak', Ane proclamation ye should mak,' &c. Flizgig, sb, a flighty woman, one adorned with showy, flying cap- ribbons, or dressed at all out of the way. Flizz is to fly o£E in O.Eng., and gygge a flighty person. Halliwell says phizgig, an old woman dressed extra vag^Uy. Floggish, acff, slow; bulky. Flomepot, or Flonepot, a small earthenware pan used for holding Floor-olaat, i, e. floor-clout. See next word. Floor-cover, sb. This, with the preceding word, both formerly much used for a carpet or any kind of covering for the floor. Floping, pt. flashy; moving about to draw attention, or with clothes not properly arranged.
