An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

FLINDRIKIN, s.
V. [Flinder], v.
Watson's Coll.

Flindrikin, adj. Flirting, Fife.

To FLING, v. a.
1. To baffle, to deceive, S.
2. To jilt. S.
Morison.

Fling, s.
1. A disappointment, in general, S.
2. A disappointment in love, in consequence of being jilted, S.
A. Douglas.
3. A fit of ill humour. To tak the fling, to become unmanageable.
Bannatyne Poems.

Flingin-tree, s.
1. A piece of timber used as a partition between horses. S.
2. The lower part of a flail, S.
Burns.

To FLING, v. n.
1. To dance.
Knox.

Fling, s. The act of dancing, S.
Neill.
Hence the Highland fling.

To FLIPE, FLYPE, v. a. To pull off any thing, by turning it inside out, S.
Lyndsay.

Isl. flipa, the pendulous lip of a wound.

Flipe, s. A fold, a lap, S.
Cleland.