flirdn.
Scottish.
‘Anything that is thin and insufficient, as a thin piece of cake, board, etc.’; ‘any thing viewed as a gaudy toy’; in plural, ‘worn-out clothes’, ‘vain finery’ (Jamieson).
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1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 62 Thae flirds o' silk, brought owre the seas.
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† flirdv.
Scottish. Obsolete.
intransitive. ? To sneer, gibe. Jamieson has the senses ‘to bounce, brag, also to flirt’ as current in modern Scottish use.
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a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 60 Sum flirdis, sum fenȝeis and sum flatteris.
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