flue-faker

English

Noun

flue-faker (plural flue-fakers)

  1. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A chimney sweep.
    • 1883, Lewis Strange Wingfield, Abigel Rowe (volume 3, page 23)
      The gipsy queen, too, of the flue-fakers was just behind in a donkey-tandem, escorted by a bodyguard of thin-legged gentry of the forked-radish pattern, kiddily togged.

References
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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