Obs. exc. Sc. and dial. Also flewit, fluet. [Of unknown origin.] A smart blow or stroke, a buffet.
1563–83. Foxe, A. & M., II. 1474. With his hand he … gaue Syr Thomas, a good flewet upon the vpper part of the neck.
1719. Hamilton, Ep. to Ramsay, 24 July, xiv.
| For an they winna had their blether, | |
| They’s get a flewet. |
1786. Burns, What ails ye now, x.
| I’d rather suffer for my faut, | |
| A hearty flewit, | |
| As sair owre hip as ye can draw’t | |
| Tho’ I shou’d rue it. |
1878. Cumberld. Gloss., s.v., ‘Hit him a fluet ower t’ lug.’
