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flay-flint
ˈflay-flint [See flay v. 6.] One who is guilty of the worst meanness or extortion for the sake of gain; a skin-flint.1672 Shadwell Miser 1, A pox on this damn'd Flea-flint. 1719 D'Urfey Pills I. 141 The Flea-flints, the Germans strip 'em bare. 1842 Tennyson Walking to Mail, There lived a flayflint n... Oxford English Dictionary
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Franciszek Ptak
Ptak, who went to the village, that Ptak is an extremely rich man, but also no less a speculator and flay-flint, that he earns money on masters and priests wikipedia.org
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flay
▪ I. flay, n. dial. (fleɪ) [f. flay v.] A part of a plough, for ‘flaying’ or paring off the surface of the ground.1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 8 An iron earth⁓board firmly screwed to the coulter, which in some places is called a flay. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Flay, part of a plou... Oxford English Dictionary
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