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▪ I. flaff, n. Chiefly Sc.|flæf|
[cf. next vb.]
A flutter or flapping of the wings; also, a puff, gust.
1827Wilson Noct. Ambr. (1855) I. 277 The snow was..giving them sair flaffs and dads on their faces. 1827W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 25 He..gave his wings a flaff. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xviii. 509 Merely helping themselves over the top by a small flaff of their wings. 1834― Cruise Midge (1836) I. ii. 50 When with a flaff and a rustling brush through the topmost leaves he [the owl] came down. 1894Crockett Raiders 301 A flaf o' wind.
▪ II. flaff, v. Sc.|flæf|
[onomatopœic; cf. flap.]
1. intr. To flap, make a flapping; to flutter. Of the lungs or heart: To pant or throb.
1513Douglas æneis xii. xiii. 175 This vengeabill wraik..Evyn in the face..of Turnus Can fle and flaf. 1786Burns Addr. of Beelzebub 47 Flaffan wi' duds..Frightin' awa your deucks an' geese [etc.]. 1815G. Beattie John o' Arnha' in Life (1863) 252 The watchfu' mate flaff'd i' the gale Wi' eerie screech. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Flaff, to flutter or flap.
2. trans. To flap (the wings).
1827W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 5 Thou..flaff'd thy wings, and in a crack Flew frae th' unsicker stance!
Hence ˈflaffing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1513Douglas æneis x. vii. 63 All the blayd, vp to the hylt and hand, Amyd hys flaffand longis [in tumido pulmone] hyd hes he. 1584Hudson Du Bartas' Judith 708 A thousand flaffing flags. 1833Moir Mansie Wauch xii. 79 A severe shaking of the knees and a flaffing of the heart. |