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Flatty. World English Historical Dictionary

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Flatty. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Flatty sb. slang. [f. FLAT sb.3 + -Y1.] One who is ignorant of the methods of professional thieving; a flat; also comb.: flatty-ken (see quot.).

1 1851.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour (1861), I. 218. They betray to the ‘flatties’ (natives) all their profits and proceedings. Ibid. (1851), I. 243. Some take up their abode in what they call ‘flatty-kens,’ that is, houses the landlord of which is not ‘awake’ or ‘fly’ to the ‘moves’ and dodges of the trade.

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