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单词 flay-flint
释义 ˈflay-flint
[See flay v. 6.]
One who is guilty of the worst meanness or extortion for the sake of gain; a skin-flint.
1672Shadwell Miser 1, A pox on this damn'd Flea-flint.1719D'Urfey Pills I. 141 The Flea-flints, the Germans strip 'em bare.1842Tennyson Walking to Mail, There lived a flayflint near; we stole his fruit, His hens, his eggs.
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