10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLEECH»
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From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of ...
1 987 Trent Lore Yesteryear 5 Flannel cloth was referred to as flannen. fleech,
fleetch vb To coax by flattery, cajole, entreat. Hence n A wheedling or fawning
person, [origin uncertain; OED fleech vb 2 'to beguile, cajole, coax, wheedle; ...
Fleech kept his voice soft and encouraging while his expression changed to one
of challenge with Salisa's face turned away from him. “I did,” Salisa answered
proudly and turned back to her conversation partner. Fleech's expression
returned ...
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Sc. Sync fleech'd till faithless love grew kind, DONALD Poems (1867) 77. Or.I.
Mansie protested, stormed, flecehed, threatened, and entreated by turns, Veooan
Sketches (1832) 15. Abd. Now baith o' them's aboon my reach For a' that I can ...
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Ye gaed fleechin' to Miss Mary . . to get the bairn awa frae me, CLELAND Inc/
Ibrarkeu (1883) 188, ed. 1887. s.Sc. Nancc's ain heart warmed till her and she
fleeched on an' made muckle 0' her. WiLsoN Tnlrs (1836) II. 379. Dmb. Sair ye
fleech' ...
A shiver of anxiety ran through Anne and for want of something better, she asked,
"Now?" "Now. Mausa Couper, he say not to leave him for to fleech." This made
Anne laugh. "Fleech, Eve? Do you know the meaning of the word?" "No, ma'am.
Hout, fye, Eppie," said Simon, jecringly, "it's very ill done in you to leave your
father and mother up to the neck in a hog ; gang avva, my woman, and fleech
them, if ye like, for ye canna fleech Simon Brodie." " And who but you obliges me
to ...
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A dictionary of Lowland Scotch: with an introductory chapter ...
Fleech or fleich, to pet, to wheedle, to cajole ; also, to entreat or supplicate with
fair words. A fieeching day is a day that promises to be fine, but that possibly may
not turn out so. Possibly from the French flechir, to give way, to ask humbly, ...
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Early Modern Northern English Lexis: A Literary Corpus-based ...
EDD Fleech v. [...] Hence (I) Fleeching, (b) ppl. adj. flattering, deceitful, beguiling.
SND Fleech v.1 I. tr. [...] ppl. adj. fleechan, -en, -in, wheedling. SDD 1 . Flattering,
deceitful. OED That fleeches; coaxing, wheedling. 1686 STUART Joco-Ser. Disc
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Javier Ruano-García,
2010
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The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants: The First Ten Years, 1994-2004
Top: Fleech concept sketches by Farzad Varahramyan. Above left: Mudokon skull
color map and Mudombie color map by Raymond Swanland. Above right: Fleech
graphic by Mark Ahlin. Fleech” down the toilet. FEECO TRAIN We like to think ...
Cathy Johnson, Daniel Wade,
2004
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Museum Rusticum Et Commerciale: Or, Select Papers on ...
These last-mentioned balls made with clayare not, it is true, such pleasant fuel as
those made with fleech about Bristol, because the Clay is apt to send forth a
stinking smoke, especially if the baIls are burnt before they are dry; yet ...