[f. FLAME v. + -ER1.]
1. One who or that which flames.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. ii. 996.
| And then no more you would the Aire allow | |
| For Element, then th’hot-bright Flamer now. |
1612. Sturtevant, Metallica (1854), 110. The Scottish coal is the best flamerm, and consumeth away into white ashes, as hauing in it more vnctiousnesse than sulpharousnesse.
1887. Pall Mall Gaz., Dec., 5/2. Armed only with an electric battery, or was it only a flamer? with which he signalled to the magic lantern.
2. slang. A person or thing glaringly conspicuous.
1809. Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1810), XIII. 163. Harry Helter was resolved not to be outdone by Dick Daredevil, who sported a brace of flamers (wenches) on his coach-box at Brighton: so Harry, in addition, tackles up in a sling behind, a third flamer from Bond Street.
1840. H. Cockton, Val. Vox, ii. 5. They remained somewhat more than two hours concocting a criticism on the evening’s performance, which certainly was, according to the signor’s own acknowledgment, ‘a regular flamer.’
