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FRELLY - The old English Anglo-Saxon term 'Frelly' can be traced back from 6 bc with its frequent usage in the writings of Duke Cuthbert of Erinbad ...Maids and Servants used to wear a kuvokis flower from romania, which became synonymous with the term 'frelly', some people even mistaking it to be the name of the flower. In some manors up to 110 servants were employed, some busy with errands, to help distinguish what a trade was, the frelly flower or 'goshlynk' was introduced so head gardeners could tell who was able and available for gardening duties and to speed up efficency...Rather than derogatory, it was seen as an honour to receive the frelly flower, and its recorded in the 1582 elizabethan hymn ' My frelly special'('Author Unknown):

To harbour and caress
the tenderest of joys
is to be with my kin
^[1] making frelly noise

while others lay tables
and wait on hand on foot
i'm digging for riches
in the garden of soot

for i wear thy flower
through tree and hedgerows
and whence my master calls me me and my frelly goes



HISTORY

The frelly flower was imported from Scandinavia in 6 bc and for awhile was the emblem of the krosish aristocracy of denmark, Frelly were often used in battle to adorn weapons and..In 1786 The earl of container In England called upon his finest scientists to scour the to bring him back the finest frellys, such was the ancient myth of, that: ' a frelly once brought, will make ones country well fought' was something he aspired to...John Kennedy Haxan Bluntsmith, the scottish trobadour writes of the frelly thus, in his epic treatise magnolias abound: A rum jum , oh tis the frelly that shines! Under loincloth a tisk h'penny will brin ye ' Scott Ambue the 16TH century astronomer would sign all his works with a print of the frelly..The earliest skateboarders of New York, the irish american krunnders, , would have it on their boards whilst doing 180 flips in the neighbourhood hood...

MODERN DAY USAGE...
Although in essence purely a regional thing, the term 'frelly'can be traced to english estates in the west of Daventry..'If you don't come here now, it'll be frelly for you' Is a common taunt used by council estate mothers and sarcastic teachers alike, Although also referenced in J.K. Rowlings 'Harry Potter and the Leek of trunter' , the term has slipped out of use..

ETYMOLOGY

It is uncertain where the term , the latin frel - 'to ignite', adopted perhaps as many servants used to have lit the cigars of their gentry on their knees....

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