Obs. exc. dial. [f. as prec. + CAP sb.1] A flatterer.

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1681.  W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen. (1693), 613. Avaunt all flatter-caps.

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1855.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss., Flatch or Flattercap, a flatterer; a term applied to wheedling children, when they try by flattery to gain their own little ends.

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