Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context colloquial often pejorative English) A very flamboyant (''"flaming"''), effeminate gay male. 2 (context computing slang English) One who flames, or posts vitriolic criticism.
Wikipedia
Flamer could refer to:
- Flame (malware)
- Faggot (slang)
- Flaming (Internet)
Usage examples of "flamer".
The flamer remained in the dust until the commander approached the Combatants and indicated it with the spurred toe of his boot.
Fitch Yorke sat on a bed roll, his head and shoulder resting against the knotty trunk of a wind-twisted tree, his blond hair bright against the dark purple-blue of the bole as he chewed reflectively on a stick and regarded the flamer with a brooding frown.
Hansu picked up the flamer, and his soberness was in contrast to the other's momentary enthusiasm.
The flamer had not touched the face and though it was contorted and twisted with agony, Kana knew who it was he supported in his arms.
As the last strip of stuff dropped away he held, plain to their recognition, a flamer of Galactic design.
Zinga and Fylh brought up the rear, having armed themselves, as Kartr noted, with a portable flamer to cut through jammed bulkheads.
Blake reversed the flamer and brought its butt down on the probe scout's head.
Then he made one more jump away from the flamer, lost his balance and fell.
Holding the flamer to his side in half concealment, he unfastened the hatch and jumped out.
A pattern of violence, which could only have been woven by another flamer, made a net of vicious light, but it had not caught them.
Rising smoke and fumes marked the beat of a flamer whip wielded from on high!
The pilot was cruising hardly above treetop level, using a portable flamer on the shorter forest growth of the river bottoms.
Naill lay there, whimpering a little as the waves of pain flowed from his arm, pulsed through his body—until he hardly cared that at any moment the flamer ray could hiss across him.
There is danger here—worse danger than the flamer, or the hounds and the garth hunters.
What pushed its nose through into the open was no flamer or grubber, as Ayyar had expected, but something that had no place in this wilderness, as if one of the space ships had fallen over to creep reptile-like across the land.