[the word orig. appeared as afflicke (albeit at F in the A–Z listing in Rowlands’ Martin-Mark-all, 1610) and has always been assumed, by the OED and others, to have been a misprint of a flick. That said, it has no proven ety. and may indeed be one, equally incomprehensible word]
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