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flue-faker en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A chimney sweep.
    • The gipsy queen, too, of the flue-fakers was just behind in a donkey-tandem, escorted by a bodyguard of thin-legged gentry of the forked-radish pattern, kiddily togged. 1883, Lewis Strange Wingfield, Abigel Rowe, volume 3, page 23:

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