- 01.070 and Ori brought out flutes from somewhere inside their coats;
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Flurry
An onomatopoetic word suggested by “flow” and “hurry”!
- 06.084 There was a sudden flurry of sparks
- 13.049 by their smoking torches flurried over them;
“flurry, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 26 July 2015.
Flounder
The OED tells us this one is onomatopoetic from blending such sounds and senses as “flop”, “blunder”, and “flodder”, an obscolete word meaning “flood”.
- 10.012 in the darkness floundering
“† ˈflodder, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 26 July 2015.
“flounder, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 26 July 2015.
Flop
- 07.071 and sat flop on the floor looking rather surprised.
- 08.092 flop to the ground,
Flip-flap
I can almost hear the echoes off of bare stone.
- 05.120 Gollum flip-flapping ahead,
It’s reduplicative, it’s sound play!
“flip-flap, adv., n., and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/71658. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Flint
- 04.016 and flint.
Flicker
We learn that this word is onomatopoetic, less noisy than “flacker”. Both have to do with the motion of bird wings, at least in their first meanings.
- 01.071 the firelight flickered –
- 07.094 and the fire flickered about them,
- 08.006 in the little flicker of the flames.
- 09.039 and the flicker of lights.
- 12.029 Flickering fires leaped up
- 13.019 it was tinged with a flickering sparkle
- 14.003 Suddenly it flickered back to view;
- 17.050 and each flickered as it fled as if with stinging fire.
“flicker, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 26 July 2015.
Flaw
- 12.077 Flawless!
Flake
- 11.032 A flake of rock split from the wall
Flagon
- 09.025 and sat down at a table on which two large flagons were set.
- 09.025 not for the butler’s great flagons.
- 13.046 among flagons
A flagon has a lid or cap, compared to other drinking vessels.
“flagon, n1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 1 July 2015.
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