Chiefly Sc. Also flype, flip. [? f. prec. sb. (which however is not recorded so early); cf. MDa. flippe to skin.]
1. trans. To strip off (the skin, etc.); to peel, flay. Also, † to flipe off. Obs. exc. dial.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 954. He … fflypit of the fflese.
1724. Ramsay, Gent. Sheph., IV. i.
| And ten sharp nails; that when my hands are in, | |
| Can flype the skin o’ ye’r cheeks out o’er your chin. |
1813. W. Leslie, Surv. Nairn, Gloss., 455. Flyp. To ruffle back the skin, to pull off a stocking by its top, to turn out the inside.
1827. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d, 210.
| Great faulds o’ capper aff were flypit; | |
| Great sheets o’ braid lead aff were rippit. |
1892. Northumbld. Gloss., s.v. ‘Aa flyped him’ figuratively used, means ‘I robbed or stripped him.’
† 2. To turn up or down, to fold back; also, to turn inside out. Also with up. Obs.
1530. Palsgr., 552/2. I flype up my sleves, as one dothe that intendeth to do some thynge.
c. 1538. Lyndesay, Supplic., 96.
| Than, quhen thay step furth throw the streit, | |
| Thair faldingis flappis about thair feit, | |
| Thair laithlie lyning furthwart flypit, | |
| Quhilk hes the muk and midding wypit. |
1637–50. Row, The History of the Kirk of Scotland (1842), 451. In my wantonness and pastime I used often to flype up the lids of my eyes, and cast up the whyte of my eyes, so that any bodie wold have trowed that I was blind.
1788. E. Picken, Poems, Gloss., Flype, to turn outside in.
1847. Halliwell, Flip up, to turn up one’s sleeves.
3. Comb., flipe-wool dial. (Hawick): = skin-wool.
Hence Fliped ppl. a., of a fleece: Torn off bodily.
1888. Daily News, 10 Sept., 2/6. Wool … fliped fleeces, 81/2d.
