Flame

a sweetheart. Flannel , or HOT FLANNEL , the old term for gin and beer, drunk hot, with nutmeg, sugar, .; a play on the old name “lambs wool.” Also called “flip.” There is an anecdote told of Goldsmith helping to drink a quart of FLANNEL in a night-house, in company with George Parker, Ned Shuter, and a demure, grave-looking gentleman, who continually introduced the words “crap,” “stretch,” “scrag,” and “swing.” Upon the Doctor asking who this strange person might be, and being told his profe ion, he rushed from the place in a frenzy, exclaiming, “Good God! and have I been sitting all this while with a hangman!”