flinder
verbEtymology From Middle English flindre. Compare Dutch vlinder.
1
To flirt; run about in a fluttering manner
flinder
noun/flɪndə/
Etymology From Middle English flendris, of North Germanic origin, from or related to Norwegian flindra, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz, from Proto-Indo-European *splind- (“to split, cleave”).
1
A small piece or fragment; a thin slice; splinter
- “It’s to swear to stand by one another, and never tell the gang’s secrets, even if you’re chopped all to flinders, and kill anybody and all his family that hurts one of the gang.”1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 273: