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flint

UK/flɪnt/ US/ˈflɪnt/ fairly common slang uk

noun

1.

a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

2.

a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

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Origin

From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Dutch vlint, flint (“flint, cobblestone”), German Flins, Flint (“flint, pebble”), Danish flint (“flint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)pley- (“to split”). More at split.

Phrases

  • eccentric flint
  • fix someone's flint
  • flint corn
  • flint disease
  • flint mill
  • flint paper
  • iron flint
  • skin a flint

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