Meanings
nounflue-faker (plural flue-fakers)
plural flue-fakers
- UKobsoleteslangA chimney sweep.
The gipsy queen, too, of the flue-fakers was just behind in a donkey-tandem, escorted by a bodyguard of thin-legged gentry of the forked-radish pattern, kiddily togged.
1883, Lewis Strange Wingfield, Abigel Rowe, volume 3, page 23
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