[See FLAY v. 6.] One who is guilty of the worst meanness or extortion for the sake of gain; a skin-flint.

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1672.  Shadwell, Miser, I. Robin. A pox on this damn’d Flea-Flint.

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1719.  D’Urfey, Pills, I. 141.

        When bold Dragoons have been pickering there,
And the Flea flints, the Germans strip ’em bare.

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1842.  Tennyson, Walking to Mail.

        There lived a flayflint near; we stole his fruit,
His hens, his eggs; but there was law for us.

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