Origin of "flamer"?

[Scot LaFaive]

Is it used as "He's got the flame" or something like that? I've never heard
of that.

Scot


>From: Rowan McMullin <tryxchange at GMAIL.COM>
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>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:59:02 -0600
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>I have a reference to "flame" as a slang term for any venereal disease,
>particularly gonorrhea.  Richard Spears' dictionary of slang and euphemism
>places this use in the 1800s.  Can anyone confirm or deny this?
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>-Rowan
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>On 12/14/06, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
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> > Just a side note, but some years back I read a book recounting a month
> > or so in the life of Ed Muskie; the word "flamer" came up as describing
> > the sort of senator who will not compromise an inch, preferring to "go
> > down in flames". (I don't recall which senators were identified as such,
> > but George McGovern may have been one of them.)
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