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- verb Present participle of
fleech .
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Examples
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“Haud your tongue for a fause fleeching loon!” said the king, but with a smile on his face that showed the flattery had done its part.
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At fair or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching
A Lament for Flodden 1919
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At fair or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching [15] --
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She's daft about that long, false, fleeching beggar of a father of hers, and red-mad about the Gregara, and proscribed names, and King James, and a wheen blethers.
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At fair or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching
Lament for Flodden 1875
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"You are a fleeching, flattering laddie," she answered; but she stroked and fingered the gay kerchief, while Christina made her observe how bright were the colours of it, and how neatly the soft folds fell around her.
A Knight of the Nets Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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She's daft about that long, false, fleeching beggar of a father of hers, and red-mad about the Gregara, and proscribed names, and King James, and a wheen blethers.
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She's daft about that long, false, fleeching beggar of a father of hers, and red-mad about the Gregara, and proscribed names, and King James, and a wheen blethers.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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She wanted to go to Melbourne, but the master would not hear of it; and not all her fleeching, nor her tears, nor three days 'sulks, in which she would not open her mouth to him, would make him give in to that.
Mr. Hogarth's Will Catherine Helen Spence 1867
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At fair, or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching --
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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