v. north. dial. [f. FLAFF v. + -ER 6.] intr. To move with a rustling motion; to flutter. Also with out.

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17[?].  Colin Clout, in Aitken, Scott. Song, 189.

        Mony a birdie, sweetly singin’,
Flaffered briskly roun about.

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1863.  Robson, Bards of Tyne, 342, The Owl.

        Oft fra its nest, in Cabbage Square,
  It flaffer’d out at neets, man,
’Mang sic a flock that neetly blare,
  And carry crooks an’ leets, man.

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