Verb. 1. To drink.—Matsell.
2. (old).—To laugh wantonly; also to kiss, or lewdly fondle a woman.—Palsgrave. For synonyms, see Firkytoodle.
1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v. Flicker, to grin or flout.
Also Flicking = (1) drinking, and (2) wanton laughter.
Let her flicker, phr. (American).—Said of any doubtful issue: ‘let the matter take its chance.’
Flicket-a-Flacket, adv. (old).—Onomatopoetic for a noise of flapping and flicking.
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., ii., 20. Their bellies went flicket-a-flacket.
Flier or Flyer, subs. (racing and yachting).—1. A horse or boat of great speed; also (American railway) a fast train; hence, by implication, anything of excellence. Cf., Dasher, Daisy, etc. Also adj., = keen for.
1865. Braddon, Henry Dunbar, ch. xxii. The mare’s in splendid condition; well, you saw her take her trial gallop the other morning, and you must know she’s a flier, so I won’t talk about her.
1884. Hawley Smart, From Post to Finish, p. 156. Atalanta might be a flyer, but an artist like Pycroft, with a clever colt like Newsmonger under him, was quite likely to outride whatever boy Mr. Pipes might now be able to pick up.