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From: "Robert C. McArtor" <>
Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] Flat As A Flitter
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:41:43 -0400


I remember it as "fritter". A corn fritter (pancake-like creation) was indeed flat. Aye, Bob McArtor

RW Hughes wrote:

> OK...............I heard this one all the time growing up in SC and I know what it means..............question is, where and how did it originate? What the heck was a flitter that it was considered so flat?
>
> Bill

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