north. Also 6 flepe, 6–9 flype. [cf. Du. fleb, flep, a forehead-cloth worn by women, Da. flip lap, protruding piece (of a shirt, etc.), lip of a wound, mod.Icel. flipi a horse’s lip; cf. also next vb., from which the senses in 2 are derived.]
1. A fold or flap; the flap or brim of a hat.
1530. Palsgr., 552/2. I tourne up the flepe of a cap.
1571. Wills & Inv. N. Counties (Suttees), I. 361. Vj cappes wth flypes in ye neke iiij s.
a. 1689. W. Cleland, Poems (1697), 12.
| With Brogues, Trues, and pirnie Plaides, | |
| With good blew Bonnets on their Heads; | |
| Which on the one side had a flipe, | |
| Adorn’d with a Tobacco pipe. |
1796. W. Marshall, Yorksh. (ed. 2), II. 319. Flipe (of a hat); the brim.
1828. Bewick, Mem. (1862), 38. In what king’s reign his hat had been made was only to be guessed at, but the flipes of it were very large.
1868. Atkinson, Cleveland Gloss., Flipe, the brim of a hat.
2. dial. (See quots.)
1847. Halliwell, Flipe, a flake of snow.
1892. Northumbld. Gloss., Flipe, Flype, a thin piece, a piece of skin torn off. To take off in flypes, is to take off in thin pieces.
Hence Flip(p)ed ppl. a., having a flap.
1886. Pall Mall G., 4 June, 11/1. A Jew, in a flipped hat of mottled straw.
