flute v.1
(Aus.) to talk incessantly.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dead Bird (Sydney) 4 Jan. 2/1: The game ’un was out to dinner the other night, and [...] fluted to the wife of his bosom on the many beauties of Miss Decollete, who sat opposite to him. | |
| Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 75: [...] to flute – to talk. | |
| ‘Wongi on Water’ inSun. Times (Perth) 7 Feb. 4/7: We chips ole Carr, and he starts flutin’ about ‘ow ’e aster git np before sunrise and lick the doo orf ther grass. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Oct. 43/1: That’s where we fall in – or, rather, it’s where those hundreds you were fluting about disappear. | |
| ‘Barracking’ in Benno and Some of the Push 140: T’ hear him flute you’d think he’d discovered th’ whole team on a doorstep. | |
| Williamstown Chron. (Vic.) 1 June 6/3: On thing, I was wrong when ‘fluting’ about this business was the foundation. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Letters from the Big House 144: ’E says as ’is china bust a two-handful kite, Scotch jug, flutes the bogeys cause the jumper ses the moniker’s bent. Slung ’em the madam, an’ copped. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Lowlife (2001) 6: All the sort that flute ‘Mummy’ and ‘Daddy’ in high-class accents. |
In phrases
(Irish) to vacillate.
| The Joy (2015) [ebook] ‘Look, what’s the fucking story? Are yiz getting out or what? [...] Stop fluting around and tell me where yiz are wanting to go’. |
(Aus.) loquacious.
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 30: Flute [...] ‘good on the flute,’ a good talker. |
(Aus.) to monopolize the conversation.
| ‘Out Back’ in Bulletin Reciter 1880–1901 19: He never tired while he ‘held the flute’ of telling what he could do. |
(Aus.) talking continually.
| A Rogue’s Luck (1931) 161: Gor blime, oncet you get on th’ flute about th’ good old days of th’ game, yer dead ter talk orl night. |
(Aus.) to let someone else speak.
| Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.]. |
(Aus.) stop talking, shut up.
| ‘Wattle Flat’ in Bulletin Reciter 1880–1901 80: Sit down, and put yer flute away—or else I ’ll break yer jaw. |