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† ˈFlanderkin Obs.
(See also Flounderkin and Flandrican a.) [f. next + -kin.]
1. An inhabitant of Flanders, a Fleming. Also attrib. (quasi-adj.) = Flemish. Obs.
1694S. Johnson Notes Past. Lett. Bp. Burnet i. 32 Till we are in the Condition of the Flanderkin Towns, he need not urge us with their Practice and Example. 1698Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) IV. 432 The Flanderkins have laid a duty of 3 guilders upon every {pstlg}100 of Irish wool that is imported there. 1810J. Porter Scot. Chiefs iii. xv. 342 The Flanderkins..suddenly giving way with cries of terror. 1821Hogg Jacobite Relics Ser. ii. ii. 8 But Flanderkins they have nae skill To lead a Scottish force, man.
2. slang. (See quots.)
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Flanderkin, a very large Fat Man or Horse. 1811Sporting Mag. XXXVIII. 63 Florikins are amongst the nondescripta..in ornithology..You read of them..under the name, I believe, of Flanderkins. |