Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Bits, fragments, or splinters.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
WordNet 3.0
- n. bits and splinters and fragments
- n. British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)
Etymologies
- See flinder. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English flendris, possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian flindra, splinter. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In fact, the NPCs carry on conversations about local gossip while you're Keith Mooning the room to flinders, which is somehow insulting; the people here are talking about the spate of local burglaries as if it's of high importance, but your gorilla-style poo-flinging antics aren't worthy of comment.”
“The skull shatters into flinders and the brain melts into gray sludge.”
“We left behind us a debris field of PerfectWood flinders but -- luckily -- no bodies.”
“F430 Spider on Flinders + Web 2.0 Glocal Downunder in 2007. flinders, mornington peninsula, australia.”
“Sometimes, it's a train, coming your way to smash you to flinders.”
“It is a beautiful hymn and beats the flinders off some of the old chestnuts we continue to sing in the Episcopal Hymnal.”
“Post-WWII Germany could have de-Nazification because their country had been bombed to flinders.”
“And lo! as I went from under that huge and dreadful overhang of the great waters, there came downward from the height a great stone that had been cast by the Jet, and it burst upon the rock to my back, and certain of the flinders did strike and ring upon mine armour, and made me to stagger as I ran.”
“I served†blah blah blah… whens the last time you were in mogadishu or the flinders ranges int he middle of the outback?”
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“Flickr'ing with my 02 XDAii flinders, mornington peninsula, australia.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flinders’.
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Words That Mean Things
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flinders, periplus, palaver, midden, cadge, legerdemain, flense, lapidary, geas, bailey, susurration, satoris and 128 more...
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Maineisms
Some of these were taken from older literature and have fallen out of use in the past few decades, but many are still used today in the same way they were used a century ago. By no means a compreh...
Yankeedom, wizzled, wing and wing, wickie-up, whiffletree, weewaw, wangan, wainy, upstair, twice-laid, tunket, trig and 136 more...
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huck finnian
ain't, stretchers, without, sivilize, hogshead, victuals, bulrushers, tolerable, goggles, middling, reckoned, who-whooing and 287 more...
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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wackyvorlon's list
herein, execrable, extirpate, ameliorate, sawbuck, obstreperous, truculent, festinate, exiguous, exsanguinate, vehement, vex and 135 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Caxton's List
General Flotsam
drisheen, diamine, ellingtonian, hoodoo, a little happy, hobbledehoy, cambric, kenspeckle, feral, btwers, slipstream, fletching and 5 more...
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Words to Learn
pittance, prig, mawkish, raiment, legerdemain, uxoricide, derelict, natter, strop, tipple, extol, signet and 39 more...
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caxton flinders n pl, splinters or fragments Jan 7, 2008