Sc. Obs. [Cf. ON. flagð similarly used.] An opprobrious term applied to a woman.

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1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xiv. 71.

        Sic fartingaillis on flaggis als fatt as quhailis
Fattit lyk fulis with hattis that littil availis.

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1535.  Lyndesay, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits, 2137. Ane fistand flag, a flagartie fuffe.

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1866.  Edmondstoun, Shetland & Orkn. Gloss., Flaag, a large clumsy woman.

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