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flue-faker

flue-faker noun: a chimney sweep.

Noun

flue-faker (plural flue-fakers)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A chimney sweep.
    • The gipsy queen, too, of the flue-fakers was just behind in a donkey-tandem, escorted by a bodyguard of thin-legged gentry of the forked-radish pattern, kiddily togged.1883, Lewis Strange Wingfield, Abigel Rowe, volume 3, page 23

Forms of flue-faker

pluralflue-fakers

Questions about flue-faker

What does flue-faker mean?
Flue-faker means a chimney sweep.
What part of speech is flue-faker?
Flue-faker is a noun.
What is the plural of flue-faker?
The plural of flue-faker is flue-fakers.

Words near flue-faker in the dictionary

  1. flue pipes
  2. flue stop
  3. flue stops
  4. flue whale
  5. flue whales
  6. flue-faker
  7. flue-fakers
  8. Flueckiger
  9. flued
  10. Fluegel
  11. fluegelhorn

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