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▪ I. flick, n.1|flɪk|
[Echoic; cf. F. flicflac the cracking of a whip.]
1. a. A light blow, esp. one given with something pliant, a whip, etc., or with the finger-nail.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys 85 Thy craft..is not worth a flykke. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Cachete, a flicke in the cheeke. 1749Fielding Tom Jones v. ii, ‘If the parson had not his petticoats on, I should have lent un o flick.’ 1859Boyd Recr. Country Parson (1862) 74, I have sometimes given you an angry flick when you shied. 1886D. C. Murray First Person Sing. xix. 146 With a dexterous flick of the towel he extinguished his own candle.
b. Any sudden movement; a jerk.
1866Reader 6 Jan. 19/1 The peculiar flick of the brush in drawing the terminations of the foliage. 1867F. Francis Angling vii. (1880) 263 The slightest ‘flick’ or ‘crack’ [in throwing the line] will necessitate putting on a new fly.
c. quasi-adv. With a flick.
1862H. Kingsley in Macm. Mag. July 225 The line came ‘flick’ home across his face.
d. Cricket. A quick turn of the batsman's or bowler's wrist in playing or delivering the ball; also, a turn of the ball. Hockey. A stroke played with such an action; so flick shot, flick stroke.
1897K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket 73 There is a certain amount of ‘flick’ from the fingers, but this is quite different from the twist of the slow bowler. Ibid. 84 Spin imparted by wrist ‘flick’. 1903Jephson in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket 91 The varying ‘flicks’ or ‘whips’ of the wrist. Ibid. 112 Two or three long loose strides, two at a trot, and an arm swinging round like a flail, a good length, great pace, and on any wicket at times a considerable flick back from the off. 1957Encycl. Brit. XI. s.v. Hockey (caption, facing p. 616) Start of flick stroke. 1959Times 6 Mar. 16/2 Hodgetts..placed his flick poorly. 1962Times 10 Dec. 4/6 A flick shot.
e. A film; also in pl., the cinema. colloq. (Cf. flicker n.3 3.)
1926E. Wallace Square Emerald xv, We'll occupy the afternoon with a ‘flick’. I love the movies—especially the romantic ones. 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 113 We all know the word movies, but still use pictures or cinema [si'nima] in preference to the American term... Mr. Titley adds the slang flicks or flickers, unknown to me. 1931Repertory (Oxford) 18 Apr. 9/1 Hand in hand with the Muse of the Theatre departs the appropriate feminine deity who presides over the ‘flicks’. 1936Times 29 Feb. 13/4 The present flick-minded generation may see rather than read its Victorian classics. 1949F. Swinnerton Doctor's Wife comes to Stay 112 He would take her to the theatre, the ballet, the flicks. 1959J. Braine Vodi xviii. 215 Where shall we go this afternoon anyway? Tanbury and tea at the Raynton, then a flick?
2. The sound produced by a light blow (see sense 1 a above); hence, any slight, sharp sound.
1844Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury I. xix, The only evidences of sound..being the creaking and straining of the wheels..or the flick of the driver's whip. 1866Cornh. Mag. Dec. 655 The flick of her cards falling upon the table was the music she loved best to hear. 1890Gloucestersh. Gloss., Flick, the hasty snap of a greyhound when he fails to secure the hare.
3. concr. Something thrown off with a jerk; a dash, splash. (Perh. influenced by fleck n.1)
1848Thackeray Van. Fair xix, The flicks of yellow that the rushlight threw on the dreary darkened ceiling. 1891Pall Mall G. 13 Nov. 7/2 Great flicks of spray and foam as big as a man's hand.
4. Comb. flick-knife, a weapon with the blade held in the handle by a catch which can be released with a flick of the finger; flick roll Aeronaut. (see quot. 1950); also as v.
1957Times 15 Nov. 13/1 Mr. Justice Streatfeild said at York Assizes yesterday: ‘What an invention of the Devil is the ‘*flick’ knife, which unhappily so often features in crimes of violence in this country, often committed by young people.’ 1958New Statesman 6 Sept. 261/2 Young thugs who have poured into the area carrying flick-knives, bicycle chains and petrol-bombs. 1967Spectator 4 Aug. 138/3 There's only one flick knife on show; but the view of New York's educational system has seldom looked bleaker.
1928O. Stewart Aerobatics 6 In the *flick roll the machine again turns over sideways but, instead of doing so gently and lazily, it does so quickly with a violent wriggle. Ibid. 9 Some aeroplanes require a good deal of firm handling before they can be induced to flick roll. 1950Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 9 Flick roll, a rapidly executed roll in which the autorotative tendency of the wings is aided to some extent by the rolling moment due to the use of rudder at high angles of incidence. 1956D. Barnham One Man's Window 65, I have never seen flick rolls used in combat before.
▪ II. flick, n.2|flɪk|
[Origin unknown; perh. two distinct words.]
†1. slang. A thief. Obs.—0
1610Rowlands Martin Mark-all, A Flicke [printed Afflicke], a Theefe.
2. dial. and vulgar. (See quots.)
1883Punch 28 July 38/1 Last night, They'd a feet in these gardens, old flick. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Flick, a very familiar epithet—as ‘Come on, old flick’. 1920‘Sapper’ Bull-Dog Drummond iii. 87 All that I have, dear old flick, is yours for the asking. 1930G. Manning-Sanders Burnt Man xiv. 168 ‘Why, hullo Ambrose, old flick!’ cried Joe.
▪ III. flick, n.3 dial.
Also fleck.
[var. of flix.]
The fur of a hare or rabbit, etc.; hence collect. hares and rabbits. Cf. feather n. 4.
1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 140 The black [cat] had lost a very large portion of his flick. 1840Spurdens Supp. to Voc. E. Anglia, Flick, hare's or rabbit's down. 1887Kent Gloss., Fleck, hares; rabbits; ground game. ‘They killed over two hundred pheasants, but not but terr'ble little fleck.’
▪ IV. flick, n.4
dial. See fleck n.3
▪ V. flick, v.1 Cant.|flɪk|
[prob. a dialectal variant of flitch v.]
trans. To cut.
1677Coles, Flick, to cut. 1750Apol. Life Bampfylde-M. Carew 338 Flick me some panam and cassan; cut me some bread and cheese. 1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Flick the peter, cut off the cloak bag, or portmanteau. 1815Scott Guy M. xxviii, One of them..desired one of the lads ‘to hand in the black Peter, that they might flick it open’. 1837Disraeli Venetia xiv, Flick the bread, cut the bread.
▪ VI. flick, v.2|flɪk|
Also dial. and U.S. fleck.
[f. flick n.1; app. not recorded before the 19th c.]
1. trans. To strike lightly with something flexible, as a whip.
1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxiii, ‘Many and many is the circuit this pony has gone,’ said Mr. Crummles, flicking him skilfully on the eyelid. 1873Ouida Pascarèl II. xi. 247 Pascarèl flicking his mandoline into harmony with the lazzarone song which he was humming. 1875A. R. Hope My Schoolboy Fr. 149 Flicking each other with our towels. 1884W. C. Smith Kildrostan 61, O white-throat swallow flicking The loch with long wing-tips.
2. a. To remove (something) with a smart stroke of something flexible. Also with away.
1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole ii. 30 [He] attempted to flick a fly from the horse's haunch. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxviii, He would flick away..the particles of dust with a graceful wave of his hand. 1887M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike ii, Miss Deverill was flicking the chalk-marks off the cloth with her handkerchief. 1918C. Sandburg Cornhuskers 50 He lived flecking lint off coat lapels.
b. To throw (off, etc.) with a jerk; to jerk.
1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall iv, Like so many spots of ink, flicked at random out of a pen. 1882W. J. Cummins Catalogue Fishing Tackle 10 Don't attempt to throw against the wind, as you would be sure to ‘flick’ the fly off.
c. Cricket. (a) Of the batsman: to play (the ball) with a slight turn of the wrist.
1897Encycl. Sport I. 223/2 The two wrists moving the bat with a sort of ‘flicking’ movement. 1903P. F. Warner in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket 62 Short and straight balls, if they do not get up to any height, may be flicked round on the on side by a quick turn of the wrist. 1927M. A. Noble Those ‘Ashes’ 176 Gregory..was all at sea to Larwood, whom he flicked three times dangerously through the slips.
(b) Of the bowler: to deliver (a ball) with a flicking movement of the wrist. Also intr., said of the ball so delivered.
1903Jephson in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket 110 Bowling with a long bouncing run, he can make the ball flick higher and faster than any other bowler. Ibid. 116 He ‘flicks’ the ball as we have all seen many a wrathful billiard-player do when returning the white from a most unexpected pocket. 1920E. R. Wilson in P. F. Warner Cricket 102 He [sc. Simpson-Hayward, the underhand bowler] ‘flicked’ the cricket ball as if it were a billiard ball.
3. intr. To move with quick vibrations; (also, to flick it). Of a bird: To flutter; in quot. with out. Of a wound: To palpitate, throb. Cf. flicker.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxviii. (1856) 349 As it is, we are undoubtedly flicking it to the north again. 1866Blackmore Cradock Nowell xxxi, The jar-bird flicked out from the ivy-drum. 1889N.W. Linc. Gloss., Fleck, to flutter, to throb. ‘My thumb, I knew it was getherin', it fleck'd soä.’ a1890R. F. Burton in Life (1893) I. 90 They were flicking across the country at the rate of twelve miles an hour.
4. trans. To move or shake with a ‘flick’; to make a light stroke or movement with (a whip, etc.).
1844Mrs. Houston Yacht Voy. Texas II. 313 The ladies..begin flicking about their fans. 1849Alb. Smith Pottleton Leg. xxxi. 357 The driver flicked his whip at her parasol. 1861Fraser's Mag. Dec. 768 Our rotten old sail began to flick itself into shreds. 1877C. Keene Let. in G. S. Layard Life ix. (1892) 251, I was afraid of flicking my line into my host's eye. 1879G. Meredith Egoist xxxii. (1889) 312 He stood..flicking a wet towel at Crossjay. 1887A. W. Tourgée Button's Inn 124 ‘You handle that as if there were eggs in it,’ laughed the other, flecking the whip. 1886Stevenson Pr. Otto ii. xii. 203 He flicked the order on the table.
absol.1880Blackw. Mag. Jan. 79/1 So, flicking first at one hind-leg, then at another, he succeeded..in getting her to face him. 1889‘C. E. Craddock’ Despot of Broomsedge Cove xxiii. 424 He experimented with some delicate flecking touches of the bow.
▪ VII. flick, v.3 Chiefly dial.|flɪk|
Also fleck.
[f. flick n.3]
1. trans.
a. To cause the fur to fly from (a hare or rabbit); hence, to wound.
b. Of a dog: To seize by the fur.
1843J. T. J. Hewlett College Life III. xxxiii. 299 They [the dogs] ran up to their hare..flicked, and eventually killed her. 1876Surrey Provincialisms (E.D.S.) s.v., ‘You flicked him pretty much’ means you shot him very hard. 1888Berksh. Gloss. s.v. Vleck, ‘I vlecked a rabbut zo's I thinks the dogs 'ull ketch un.’
2. To strip of fur. Hence, fig. To fleece, strip.
1823Moor Suffolk Words, ‘I fleck't him of all his marbles.’
▪ VIII. flick(ke
obs. form of flitch. |