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▪ I. flird, n. Sc.
[Possibly repr. OE. fleard trifle: see flerd. But cf. Du. flarden splinters, shivers.]
‘Anything that is thin and insufficient, as a thin piece of cake, board, etc.’; ‘any thing viewed as a gaudy toy’; in pl., ‘worn-out clothes’, ‘vain finery’ (Jam.).
1788E. Picken Poems 62 Thae flirds o' silk, brought owre the seas.
▪ II. † flird, v. Sc. Obs.
Also 6 flyrd.
[Of obscure origin; cf. fleer v.]
intr. ? To sneer, gibe.
Jamieson has the senses ‘to bounce, brag, also to flirt’ as current in modern Sc. use.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lvii. 9 Sum flyrdis; sum feynȝeis; and sum flattiris. |