Obs. (See also FLOUNDERKIN and FLANDRICAN a.) [f. next + -KIN.]
1. An inhabitant of Flanders, a Fleming. Also attrib. (quasi-adj.) = Flemish. Obs.
1694. S. Johnson, Notes Past. Let. Bp. Burnet, I. 32. It is a Londlopeing Argument; and till we are in the Condition of the Flanderkin Towns, he need not urge us with their Practice and Example.
1698. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), IV. 432. The Flanderkins have laid a duty of 3 guilders upon every 100l of Irish wool that is imported there.
1810. Jane Porter, Scot. Chiefs, III. xv. 342. The archers redoubling their discharge of artillery, the Flanderkins, who were in the van of Edward, suddenly giving way with cries of terror, the amazed king found himself obliged to retreat, or run the risk of being taken.
1821. Hogg, Jacobite Relics, Ser. II. ii. 8.
| But Flanderkins they have nae skill | |
| To lead a Scottish force, man. |
2. slang. (See quots.)
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Flanderkin, a very large Fat Man or Horse.
1811. Sporting Mag., XXXVIII. May, 63/1. Florikins are amongst the nondescripta, I believe, in ornithology…. You read of them … under the name, I believe, of Flanderkins.
