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▪ I. fleech, n.1 Sc.|fliːtʃ|
Also 7 fleaich.
[f. next. vb.]
Flattery; a piece of flattery.
a1700Macqueen's Apol. Let. in Maidment Sc. Pasquils (1868) 286 The compliments and fleaiches Which used to gain our Irish wenches. 1721Kelly Scot. Prov. 105 Fair fall you and that's a Fleech.
▪ II. † fleech, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
App. a bout, spell.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 41 Martin, this is my last straine for this fleech of mirth.
▪ III. fleech, v. Sc. and north. dial.|fliːtʃ|
Forms: 4–6, 9 flech(e, 4 fleeche, 4, 6 flesche, 6 fleache, 5–6 flei(s)che, 6 fleitsche, 7 fleitch, 7–8 fleetch, 9 dial. flaich, 6– fleech.
[Of obscure origin; the identity of the senses with those of OTeut. *þlaihan and its derivatives (Goth. ga-þlaihan to treat kindly, console, OHG. flêhôn, flêhen to fondle, flatter, beseech, MHG. vlêhen, mod.Ger. flehen to beseech, Du. vleien to flatter) suggests that the word may represent an OE. *flǽcean:—OTeut. type *þlaikjan, related to *þlaihan, as OE. tǽcean teach v. to téon(:—*tîhan).]
trans. To beguile, cajole, coax, wheedle; to entice, wheedle into going, to a place. Also, in good sense: To beseech, entreat. Also absol. and intr. (const. on, with), to speak coaxingly or beseechingly; to flatter, fawn.
1375Barbour Bruce v. 619 Bot he, vith fals vordis flechand, Ves vith his sonnys ay cumand. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Blasius 179 Hyme cane flesche..Fore to fore-sak crist his kynge. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xi. 154 And wyth þe lang schankis þis Edwart Sayd flechand til þe Brws Robert, Ðat [etc.] 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 121 [He] louit men weill that culd fleche and le. 1580Sir P. Hume Promise Jas. VI L'envoi 10 Thow dois but fleiche the King. 1603Philotus ix, I can with fair anis fleitch and flatter. 1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk iii. xxii, She fleech'd him fairly to his bed, Wi ca'ing him her burdy. 1792Burns Duncan Grey ii, Duncan fleech'd, and Duncan pray'd. a1810Tannahill Poems (1815) 101 He fleichit her neatht that wudis dark glume, And revit hyr ther of lyffe. 1820Scott Abbot xvi, The Papist..fleeched us with pardons. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge i, Better flech with a madman than fecht with him. 1873Swaledale Gloss., Flaich, to flatter, to coax, to fawn. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xix, This lad that has..seen the goodman fleeching like a suitor. 1894Crockett Raiders 388 He would often fleech on me to take part in the exercises.
▪ IV. fleech
dial. var. of flitch n.1 |
