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(senseid) Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial. (defdate)
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(RQ:Sheridan Rivals)
(RQ:Cowper Poems)
(RQ:Thackeray Henry Esmond)
(RQ:Buchan Greenmantle) I would have pulled that window out by its frame, if need be, to get to that table. There was no need, for the flimsy clasp gave at the first pull, and the sashes swung open.
(RQ:Fitzgerald Tender is the Night)
(RQ:Shelley Queen Mab)|footer=A figurative use.
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Of an argument, explanation, etc.: ill-founded, unconvincing, weak; also, unimportant; paltry, trivial. (defdate)
(RQ:Pope Arbuthnot)
(RQ:Blackstone Commentaries) and Stephen of Blois (quote-gloss), may appear at this diſtance to us, after the lavv of deſcents hath novv been ſettled for ſo many centuries, they vvere ſufficient to puzzle the underſtandings of our brave, but unlettered, anceſtors.
Of a person: lacking depth of character or understanding; frivolous, superficial. (defdate)
(RQ:Scott Canongate)
(RQ:Hunt Men Women), is shocked at his nephew (quote-gloss)? marrying an actress who brought him good children, (..)
Of a person, their physical makeup, or their health: delicate, frail. (defdate)
(RQ:Walpole Letters to Mann) I have a very flimsy constitution, consequently the young women won't taste my wit, and it is a long while before wit makes its own way in the world; especially, as I never prove it, by assuring people that I have it by me.
A thing which is ill-founded, unconvincing, or weak.
(RQ:Godwin Caleb Williams)
(senseid) Thin typing paper used together with paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document; a sheet of such paper.
(RQ:Besant Rice Mortiboy) Tennyson write on ‘flimsy?’(quote-gloss)
(RQ:Buchan Greenmantle) I flung him the flimsy with the blue strip pasted down on it, and he whistled.
(RQ:Shute Trustee)
(quote-book) David John Moore Cornwell|title=The Honourable Schoolboy|location=London|publisher=& Stoughton|Hodder and Stoughton|page=274|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/honourableschool0000leca_a6f3/page/274/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-349-22942-3|passage=Smiley peered once more at the flimsy which he still clutched in his pudgy hand.
(quote-book) has served as recorded in his “flimsies" indicates that he has almost consistently received high commendation for his service.
(quote-journal)|volume=XI|page=430|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bentleysmiscella11dickuoft/page/430/mode/1up|oclc=53840988|passage=In English Exchequer-bills full half a million, / Not “kites,” manufactured to cheat and inveigle, / But the right sort of ‘flimsy,’ all sign’d by Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon|Monteagle.
(quote-book)|volume=I|page=60|pageurl=https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=lXFKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA60|column=1|oclc=15496734|passage=THE THIEVES' ALPHABET. (..) Q was a Queer-screen, that served as a blind;†† / R was a Reader,‡‡ with flimsies well lined; (..)|footer=(small)
The text to be set into pages of magazines, newspapers, etc.; copy.
(RQ:Sala Twice Round the Clock) &91;page 34&93; The last report from the late debate in the Commons has come in; the last paragraph of interesting news, dropped into the box by a stealthy penny-a-liner, has been eliminated from a mass of flimsy on its probation, and for the most part rejected; (..)
(senseid) A hexahedral metal container with a capacity of four gallons (about 18 litres) used by the (w) during War II to hold fuel.
(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=(publisher)|Doubleday|page=98|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/killingrommelnov00pres/page/98/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-385-51970-0|passage=But the Q(quote-gloss) has ballsed-up T3 patrol's fuel ration; instead of jerry cans we get "flimsies," the notorious four-gallon containers made of metal so thin you can practically puncture it with a fingernail. Flimsies come two to a case, packed in cardboard. Of seventy-six that Collier's crew take down from the Mack, twenty-one are leaking at the seams; eleven have drained half to nil.
(RQ:NYT). 365 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. review|section=book review|page=8|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1926-02-21_75_24865/page/n47/mode/1up|column=5|passage=Its method may be roughly said to be the invention, at all events for the main characters in their novels, of a psychology so tortuous and devious that its fantastic contours cannot be fitted into any single act or situation of or in life without an elaborate apparatus of dissertation. The artistic disadvantages of the method are many. One, and perhaps the chief, is a weakening—a "flimsying" of the structure because a proper proportion of the obvious, which is the thews and sinews of fiction, has, perforce, to be left out.
(quote-book) tried to check reports that Lockheed was seriously "flimsying" the plane's construction, he received an angry call from Pentagon brass warning him, in effect, to keep out of engineering matters.
(quote-book) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)|year_published=2004|page=280|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=P5tHxiLH5lgC&pg=PA280|isbn=978-0-9751579-0-9|passage=Cry for the travesties of homes that now squat meagre on wide concrete bases, / flimsied in palm-leaf. They will not last, but they will have to do in the thin hungry scrabble to survive.
To type or write (text) on a flimsy (“sheet of thin typing paper used together with paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document”) ''(noun (senseno))''.
(quote-journal)|volume=XXVI|issue=153|page=368|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QSI_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA368|oclc=970881143|passage=An interview is not a speech. (..) If a man wants to publish an allocution of this kind, he should write it out and give it to me, or anyone else—a newsagency for example—and it will be "flimsied" to most of our English daily papers, whose conductors would, of course, use their own discretion as to how much or how little of it they would use. But in no sense of the word could such a performance be properly classified under the heading of the interview.
(quote-journal) Neild. Minutes of Evidence.|journal=Journals of the Senate|Senate and Printed Papers having Special Reference to the Senate|location=A.C.T|publisher=For the Government|Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Robert S. Brain, Government Printer for the State of Victoria|year_published=1904|volume=I|section=paragraphs 908–910|page=79|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2630362&seq=665|oclc=73066967|passage=Did you, as a matter of fact, receive pages 55 and 56 at the same time?—I cannot say that I did. / But if you had received them?—I should have flimsied them with this. / As they are not flimsied, what do you say?—All I can presume is that they were not there. I should not have separated one paper from the other, and flimsied one and left the other.
(quote-journal) Reginald Webster Page,(nb..)|volume=103|issue=2,695|page=765|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-review-uk_the-saturday-review_1907-06-22_103_2695/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=1036708132|passage=(..) Mr. Leigh Hughes|Spencer Hughes, the Liberal, is accusing the Independent Labour men of being "blacklegs." Some of them, it seems, have been doing the work of two or three journalists in the House, flimsying and syndicating London Letters and Labour articles and notes in a number of newspapers. Cannot they be peacefully persuaded to attend to their own work, and leave journalism to journalists?
(quote-book)|volume=III|page=179|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.01687/page/179/mode/1up|oclc=21668331|passage=I (quote-gloss) lived down Brixton way and made a precarious living by flimsying news paragraphs and personally delivering copies at the newspaper offices. Sometimes they were used in full, occasionally they were ruthlessly cut down to a few lines; often they went direct to the waste-paper basket.
To treat (someone or something) as paltry or unimportant; to demean, to underestimate.
(quote-book) Teri suddenly saw herself flimsied by bargains she had negotiated too readily.