The Adventurer's Glossary by Joshua Glenn;Mark Kingwell;

Author:Joshua Glenn;Mark Kingwell;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

FLASH

The seventeenth-century British slang term flash means “connected with or pertaining to the criminal underworld.” A flash-ken was a thieves’ den, a flash drum was a tavern frequented by crooks, and a straight citizen who couldn’t be conned was said to be flash to the rig. PS: The 1857 novel Tom Brown’s School Days featured a bully, Harry Flashman, whose name readers would have recognized as archaic slang for “swindler, cheat.” George MacDonald Fraser’s series of Flashman adventures (1969–2005) transform this schoolboy into an accidentally heroic figure.

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