Origin of "flamer"?

[Rowan McMullin]

I would assume so, yes.  I can't find other references, though, so I'm
guessing this is a term long out of use.

-Rowan

On 12/14/06, Scot LaFaive <spiderrmonkey at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Is it used as "He's got the flame" or something like that? I've never
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> Scot
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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
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> > > 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
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> > > but George McGovern may have been one of them.)
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> > > Jim Parish
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