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Mo the caller	guttle when I hear me shuttle (17)	RE: guttle when I hear me shuttle	29 Dec 20
" skinny (= miserly) 1833 (So, it got that definition just in time!)" The word skinflint has a longer predigree - origin-of-skinflint The phrase to skin a flint is first recorded in one of the poems introducing the 1656 edition (London) of The Legend of Captain Jones. .... Jones was one Would Skinne a Flint, and eat him when h’had done. Next question, what or who is a flint? I'd always imagined a flint for striking a light, but would you call that 'him'?

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