Talk:flick

I have read this in Harry Potter: "They were quiet for a time, watching the fields and lanes flick past." Does it still relate to the sense mentioned on this page? I would translate it by in French, but it seems not to be the canonical translation. --Fsojic (talk) 21:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ Equinox ◑ 13:07, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Obsolete form flig?
At least for the verb, John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) offers flig as an alternative form of flick (both defined there as "to whip by striking, and drawing the lash back at the same time, which causes a stinging blow. A flicking is often administered by schoolboys with a damp towel or pocket-handkerchief." Equinox ◑ 13:08, 16 December 2022 (UTC)