FLING-BRAINNOUN
a person of flighty and hasty character ...1563 obs. ETYMOLOGY from fling n. a spell of unrestrained indulgence of one's impulses + -brain FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1563 - see Example below EXAMPLE "...Remember what they haue bene which haue set forth the same in this Realme: A sort of flyngbraynes and light heades, which were neuer constant in any one thyng, as it was to be seene in the turnyng of the Table" From: Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Dayes (The Book of Martyrs) By: John Foxe, 1563 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933
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