[? f. FLIP v., with the sense of whipping up into froth. Cf. mod.Norman patois flip, phlippe, cider mixed with brandy and spices (Moisy, Dict. du Patois Normand), which is probably of English origin. See Skeat in Phil. Soc. Trans., 1889.]
† 1. The slimy scum rising to the surface of salt-pans. Obs.
1682. J. Collins, Making of Salt in Eng., 31. The shallow Pans aforesaid in Rainy weather in Summer, are kept floated, to preserve their bottoms, and in Rainy weather in Winter, are left open, to be washed clean, and made hard by the said Rain, to carry away the Flip, or Slime in Currents.
2. A mixture of beer and spirit sweetened with sugar and heated with a hot iron. (Cf. egg-flip.)
1695. Congreve, Love for Love, III. iv. Ben. Were merry Folk, we Sailors, we hant much to care for. Thus we live at Sea; eat Bisket, and drink Flip; put on a clean Shirt once a QuarterCome home and lie with our Landladies once a Year, get rid of a little Mony; and then put off with the next fair wind. How dee like us?
1709. Brit. Apollo, II. No. 22. 3/1.
For scarce were we come to our Inn, eer the Gypsie | |
With Flip and Geneve got most Damnably Typsie. |
1755. Mem. Capt. P. Drake, I. xiii. 99. At Noon, the Artillery of the Fleet was discharged, and answered by repeated Volleys from the Shore, and the Sailors were plentifully supplied with their favourite Liquor Flip, of which I had my Proportion, in Consequence of the Captains Direction.
1820. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 23 (1822), I. 180. He has fiddles and a dance at the Ship, with oceans of flip and grog.
1872. C. D. Warner, Backlog Stud., 16. In those good old days when it was thought best to heat the poker red hot before plunging it into the mugs of flip.
3. Comb.: flip-dog (see quot. 1836).
1836. Smart, Flip-dog, an iron heated to warm flip.
1851. S. Judd, Margaret, II. xi. 164. Turn the ladies in, warm your nose with Porters flip-dog, and come.