Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sort of flat custard or pie.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A sort of flat custard or pie.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
flan .
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Examples
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And whoever this ghastly genteel apparition was, I know a killing gentleman when I meet one; everything about this oily fat flawn - his dandy elobber, his polite irony, the leer in his voice when he spoke to Annette - suggested a graduate of the Starnberg-Ignatieff school, and probably all the more vicious for being a flabby cripple.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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In addition to the fish-soup, they had wine-soup, water-soup, ale-soup; and the flawn is reinforced by the froise.
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Thus your crew can keep their galley, you can build yourself a new one in your roundhouse, the officers can use the quarterdeck one, and Alexander will turn into something like a ship rather than a slaver, ye fat flawn!
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Thus your crew can keep their galley, you can build yourself a new one in your roundhouse, the officers can use the quarterdeck one, and Alexander will turn into something like a ship rather than a slaver, ye fat flawn!
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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And whoever this ghastly genteel apparition was, I know a killing gentleman when I meet one; everything about this oily fat flawn - his dandy elobber, his polite irony, the leer in his voice when he spoke to Annette - suggested a graduate of the Starnberg-Ignatieff school, and probably all the more vicious for being a flabby cripple.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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And whoever this ghastly genteel apparition was, I know a killing gentleman when I meet one; everything about this oily fat flawn - his dandy elobber, his polite irony, the leer in his voice when he spoke to Annette - suggested a graduate of the Starnberg-Ignatieff school, and probably all the more vicious for being a flabby cripple.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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I knew that fat fucken flawn Sinclair had your tools, so as soon as the court rose I took him by the collar and told him I had an informer willing to give evidence that he’d stolen a chest of tools belonging to the convict Richard Morgan.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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I knew that fat fucken flawn Sinclair had your tools, so as soon as the court rose I took him by the collar and told him I had an informer willing to give evidence that he’d stolen a chest of tools belonging to the convict Richard Morgan.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
madmouth commented on the word flawn
The word (and meaning) has given us flan, and indeed the schmancier of us pronounce this dessert as 'flawn'
October 20, 2010