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Flint Jack

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Edward Simpson, an occasional servant of Dr. Young, of Whitby. So called because he used to tramp the kingdom vending spurious fossils, flint arrow-heads, stone celts, and other imitation antiquities. Professor Tennant charged him with forging these wares, and in 1867 he was sent to prison for theft.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Flibbertigibbet
Flic (French)
Flick
Flies
Fling
Fling Herself at my Head (To)
Flins [a stone]
Flint
Flint Implements
Flint Jack
Flipper
Flirt
Flittermouse
Flo (Old French)
Floated (Stock Exchange term)
Floaters (Stock Exchange term)
Floating Academy (The)
Flogging the Dead Horse
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