Sc. Also 7 fleaich. [f. next vb.] Flattery; a piece of flattery.

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a. 1700.  Macqueen’s Apol. Let., in Maidment, Sc. Pasquils (1868), 286.

        For when the compliments and fleaiches
Which used to gain our Irish wenches
Had not the grace to work upon
This Scotish adamantall stone.

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1721.  J. Kelly, Scot. Prov., 105. Fair fall you and that’s a Fleech. An ironical Commendation of them, whose Words and Actions we approve not.

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