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To flux a wig; to put it up in curl, and bake it.
FLY. Knowing. Acquainted with another's meaning or
proceeding. The rattling cove is fly; the coachman
knows what we are about.
FLY. A waggon. CANT.
FLY-BY-NIGHT. You old fly-by-night; an ancient term of
reproach to an old woman, signifying that she was a witch,
and alluding to the nocturnal excursions attributed to
witches, who were supposed to fly abroad to their
meetings, mounted on brooms.
FLY SLICERS. Life-guard men, from their sitting on
horseback, under an arch, where they are frequently observed
to drive away flies with their swords.
FLYER. To take a flyer; to enjoy a woman with her
clothes on, or without going to bed.
FLYERS. Shoes.
FLY-FLAPPED. Whipt in the stocks, or at the cart's tail.
FLYING CAMPS. Beggars plying in a body at funerals.
FLYING GIGGERS. Turnpike gates.
FLYING HOUSE. A lock in wrestling, by which he who
uses it throws his adversary over his head.
FLYING PASTY. Sirreverence wrapped in paper and
thrown over a neighbour's wall.
FLYING PORTERS. Cheats who obtain money by pretending
to persons who have been lately robbed, that they
may come from a place or party where, and from whom,
they may receive information respecting the goods stolen
from them, and demand payment as porters.
FLYING STATIONERS. Ballad-singers and hawkers of penny
histories.
FLYMSEY. A bank note.
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FOB. A cheat, trick, or contrivance, I will not be fobbed off
so; I will not be thus deceived with false pretences. The
fob is also a small breeches pocket for holding a watch.
FOG. Smoke. CANT.
FOGEY. Old Fogey. A nickname for an invalid soldier:
derived from the French word fougeux, fierce or fiery.
FOGLE. A silk handkerchief,
FOGRAM. An old fogram; a fusty old fellow.
FOGUS. Tobacco. Tip me a gage of fogus; give me a
pipe of tobacco. CANT.
FOOL. A fool at the end of a stick; a fool at one end, and
a maggot at the other; gibes on an angler.
FOOL FINDER. A bailiff.
FOOLISH. An expression among impures, signifying the
cully who pays, in opposition to a flash man. Is he
foolish or flash?
FOOT PADS, or LOW PADS. Rogues who rob on foot.
FOOT WABBLER. A contemptuous appellation for a foot
soldier, commonly used by the cavalry.
FOOTMAN'S MAWND. An artificial sore made with unslaked
lime, soap, and the rust of old iron, on the back
of a beggar's hand, as if hurt by the bite or kick of a horse.
FOOTY DESPICABLE. A footy fellow, a despicable fellow;
from the French foutue.
FOREFOOT, or PAW. Give us your fore foot; give us your hand.
FOREMAN OF THE JURY. One who engrosses all the talk
to himself, or speaks for the rest of the company.
FORK. A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his
pocket. 'The newest and most dexterous way, which is,
to thrust the fingers strait, stiff, open, and very quick,
into the pocket, and so closing them, hook what can
be held between them.' N.B. This was taken from a
book written many years ago: doubtless the art of picking
pockets, like all others, must have been much improved
since that time.
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FORLORN HOPE. A gamester's last stake.
FORTUNE HUNTERS. Indigent men, seeking to enrich
themselves by marrying a woman of fortune.
FORTUNE TELLER, or CUNNING MAN. A judge, who tells
every prisoner his fortune, lot or doom. To go before the
fortune teller, lambskin men, or conjuror; to be tried at
an assize. See LAMBSKIN MEN.
FOUL. To foul a plate with a man, to take a dinner with him.
FOUL-MOUTHED. Abusive.
FOUNDLING. A child dropped in the streets, and found, and
educated at the parish expence.
FOUSIL. The name of a public house, where the
Eccentrics assemble in May's Buildings, St. Martin's Lane.
Fox. A sharp, cunning fellow. Also an old term for a
sword, probably a rusty one, or else from its being dyed red
with blood; some say this name alluded to certain swords
of remarkable good temper, or metal, marked with the
figure of a fox, probably the sign, or rebus, of the maker.
FOX'S PAW. The vulgar pronunciation of the French
words faux pas. He made a confounded fox's paw.
FOXED. Intoxicated.
FOXEY. Rank. Stinking.
FOXING A BOOT. Mending the foot by capping it.
FOYST. A pickpocket, cheat, or rogue. See WOTTON'S GANG.
TO FOYST. To pick a pocket.
FOYSTED IN. Words or passages surreptitiously interpolated
or inserted into a book or writing.
FRATERS. Vagabonds who beg with sham patents, or briefs,
for hospitals, fires, inundations,
FREE. Free of fumblers hall; a saying of one who cannot
get his wife with child.
FREE AND EASY JOHNS. A society which meet at the Hole
in the Wall, Fleet-street, to tipple porter, and sing bawdry.
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FREE BOOTERS. Lawless robbers and plunderers: originally
soldiers who served without pay, for the privilege of
plundering the enemy.
FREEHOLDER. He whose wife accompanies him to the alehouse.
FREEMAN'S QUAY. Free of expence. To lush at Freeman's
Quay; to drink at another's cost.
FREEZE. A thin, small, hard cider, much used by vintners
and coopers in parting their wines, to lower the price of
them, and to advance their gain. A freezing vintner; a
vintner who balderdashes his wine.
FRENCH CREAM. Brandy; so called by the old tabbies
and dowagers when drank in their tea.
FRENCH DISEASE. The venereal disease, said to have been
imported from France. French gout; the same. He suffered
by a blow over the snout with a French faggot-stick;
i.e. he lost his nose by the pox.
FRENCH LEAVE. To take French leave; to go off without
taking leave of the company: a saying frequently applied
to persons who have run away from their creditors.
FRENCHIFIED. Infected with the venereal disease. The
mort is Frenchified: the wench is infected.
FRESH MILK. Cambridge new comers to the university.
FRESHMAN. One just entered a member of the university.
FRIBBLE. An effeminate fop; a name borrowed from a
celebrated character of that kind, in the farce of Miss in her
Teens, written by Mr. Garrick.
FRIDAY-FACE. A dismal countenance. Before, and even
long after the Reformation, Friday was a day of abstinence,
or jour maigre. Immediately after the restoration of king
Charles II. a proclamation was issued, prohibiting all
publicans from dressing any suppers on a Friday.
TO FRIG. Figuratively used for trifling.
FRIG PIG. A trifling, fiddle-faddle fellow.
FRIGATE. A well-rigged frigate; a well-dressed wench.
FRISK. To dance the Paddington frisk; to be hanged.
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TO FRISK. Used by thieves to signify searching a person whom they have robbed. Blast his eyes! frisk him.
FROE, or VROE, A woman, wife, or mistress. Brush to your
froe, or bloss, and wheedle for crop; run to your mistress,
and sooth and coax her out of some money. DUTCH.
FROGLANDER. A Dutchman.
FROSTY FACE. One pitted with the small pox.
FROG'S WINE. Gin.
FRUITFUL VINE. A woman's private parts, i.e. that has
FLOWERS every month, and bears fruit in nine months.
FRUMMAGEMMED. Choaked, strangled, suffocated, or
hanged. CANT.
FUBSEY. Plump. A fubsey wench; a plump, healthy
wench.
FUDDLE. Drunk. This is rum fuddle; this is excellent
tipple, or drink. Fuddle; drunk. Fuddle cap; a drunkard.
FUDGE. Nonsense.
FULHAMS. Loaded dice are called high and lowmen, or
high and low fulhams, by Ben Jonson and other writers of
his time; either because they were made at Fulham, or from
that place being the resort of sharpers.
FULL OF EMPTINESS. Jocular term for empty.
FULL MARCH. The Scotch greys are in full march by the
crown office; the lice are crawling down his head.
FUMBLER. An old or impotent man. To fumble, also
means to go awkwardly about any work, or manual
operation.
FUN. A cheat, or trick. Do you think to fun me out of
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To flux a wig; to put it up in curl, and bake it.
FLY. Knowing. Acquainted with another's meaning or
proceeding. The rattling cove is fly; the coachman
knows what we are about.
FLY. A waggon. CANT.
FLY-BY-NIGHT. You old fly-by-night; an ancient term of
reproach to an old woman, signifying that she was a witch,
and alluding to the nocturnal excursions attributed to
witches, who were supposed to fly abroad to their
meetings, mounted on brooms.
FLY SLICERS. Life-guard men, from their sitting on
horseback, under an arch, where they are frequently observed
to drive away flies with their swords.
FLYER. To take a flyer; to enjoy a woman with her
clothes on, or without going to bed.
FLYERS. Shoes.
FLY-FLAPPED. Whipt in the stocks, or at the cart's tail.
FLYING CAMPS. Beggars plying in a body at funerals.
FLYING GIGGERS. Turnpike gates.
FLYING HOUSE. A lock in wrestling, by which he who
uses it throws his adversary over his head.
FLYING PASTY. Sirreverence wrapped in paper and
thrown over a neighbour's wall.
FLYING PORTERS. Cheats who obtain money by pretending
to persons who have been lately robbed, that they
may come from a place or party where, and from whom,
they may receive information respecting the goods stolen
from them, and demand payment as porters.
FLYING STATIONERS. Ballad-singers and hawkers of penny
histories.
FLYMSEY. A bank note.
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FOB. A cheat, trick, or contrivance, I will not be fobbed off
so; I will not be thus deceived with false pretences. The
fob is also a small breeches pocket for holding a watch.
FOG. Smoke. CANT.
FOGEY. Old Fogey. A nickname for an invalid soldier:
derived from the French word fougeux, fierce or fiery.
FOGLE. A silk handkerchief,
FOGRAM. An old fogram; a fusty old fellow.
FOGUS. Tobacco. Tip me a gage of fogus; give me a
pipe of tobacco. CANT.
FOOL. A fool at the end of a stick; a fool at one end, and
a maggot at the other; gibes on an angler.
FOOL FINDER. A bailiff.
FOOLISH. An expression among impures, signifying the
cully who pays, in opposition to a flash man. Is he
foolish or flash?
FOOT PADS, or LOW PADS. Rogues who rob on foot.
FOOT WABBLER. A contemptuous appellation for a foot
soldier, commonly used by the cavalry.
FOOTMAN'S MAWND. An artificial sore made with unslaked
lime, soap, and the rust of old iron, on the back
of a beggar's hand, as if hurt by the bite or kick of a horse.
FOOTY DESPICABLE. A footy fellow, a despicable fellow;
from the French foutue.
FOREFOOT, or PAW. Give us your fore foot; give us your hand.
FOREMAN OF THE JURY. One who engrosses all the talk
to himself, or speaks for the rest of the company.
FORK. A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his
pocket. 'The newest and most dexterous way, which is,
to thrust the fingers strait, stiff, open, and very quick,
into the pocket, and so closing them, hook what can
be held between them.' N.B. This was taken from a
book written many years ago: doubtless the art of picking
pockets, like all others, must have been much improved
since that time.
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FORLORN HOPE. A gamester's last stake.
FORTUNE HUNTERS. Indigent men, seeking to enrich
themselves by marrying a woman of fortune.
FORTUNE TELLER, or CUNNING MAN. A judge, who tells
every prisoner his fortune, lot or doom. To go before the
fortune teller, lambskin men, or conjuror; to be tried at
an assize. See LAMBSKIN MEN.
FOUL. To foul a plate with a man, to take a dinner with him.
FOUL-MOUTHED. Abusive.
FOUNDLING. A child dropped in the streets, and found, and
educated at the parish expence.
FOUSIL. The name of a public house, where the
Eccentrics assemble in May's Buildings, St. Martin's Lane.
Fox. A sharp, cunning fellow. Also an old term for a
sword, probably a rusty one, or else from its being dyed red
with blood; some say this name alluded to certain swords
of remarkable good temper, or metal, marked with the
figure of a fox, probably the sign, or rebus, of the maker.
FOX'S PAW. The vulgar pronunciation of the French
words faux pas. He made a confounded fox's paw.
FOXED. Intoxicated.
FOXEY. Rank. Stinking.
FOXING A BOOT. Mending the foot by capping it.
FOYST. A pickpocket, cheat, or rogue. See WOTTON'S GANG.
TO FOYST. To pick a pocket.
FOYSTED IN. Words or passages surreptitiously interpolated
or inserted into a book or writing.
FRATERS. Vagabonds who beg with sham patents, or briefs,
for hospitals, fires, inundations,
FREE. Free of fumblers hall; a saying of one who cannot
get his wife with child.
FREE AND EASY JOHNS. A society which meet at the Hole
in the Wall, Fleet-street, to tipple porter, and sing bawdry.
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FREE BOOTERS. Lawless robbers and plunderers: originally
soldiers who served without pay, for the privilege of
plundering the enemy.
FREEHOLDER. He whose wife accompanies him to the alehouse.
FREEMAN'S QUAY. Free of expence. To lush at Freeman's
Quay; to drink at another's cost.
FREEZE. A thin, small, hard cider, much used by vintners
and coopers in parting their wines, to lower the price of
them, and to advance their gain. A freezing vintner; a
vintner who balderdashes his wine.
FRENCH CREAM. Brandy; so called by the old tabbies
and dowagers when drank in their tea.
FRENCH DISEASE. The venereal disease, said to have been
imported from France. French gout; the same. He suffered
by a blow over the snout with a French faggot-stick;
i.e. he lost his nose by the pox.
FRENCH LEAVE. To take French leave; to go off without
taking leave of the company: a saying frequently applied
to persons who have run away from their creditors.
FRENCHIFIED. Infected with the venereal disease. The
mort is Frenchified: the wench is infected.
FRESH MILK. Cambridge new comers to the university.
FRESHMAN. One just entered a member of the university.
FRIBBLE. An effeminate fop; a name borrowed from a
celebrated character of that kind, in the farce of Miss in her
Teens, written by Mr. Garrick.
FRIDAY-FACE. A dismal countenance. Before, and even
long after the Reformation, Friday was a day of abstinence,
or jour maigre. Immediately after the restoration of king
Charles II. a proclamation was issued, prohibiting all
publicans from dressing any suppers on a Friday.
TO FRIG. Figuratively used for trifling.
FRIG PIG. A trifling, fiddle-faddle fellow.
FRIGATE. A well-rigged frigate; a well-dressed wench.
FRISK. To dance the Paddington frisk; to be hanged.
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TO FRISK. Used by thieves to signify searching a person whom they have robbed. Blast his eyes! frisk him.
FROE, or VROE, A woman, wife, or mistress. Brush to your
froe, or bloss, and wheedle for crop; run to your mistress,
and sooth and coax her out of some money. DUTCH.
FROGLANDER. A Dutchman.
FROSTY FACE. One pitted with the small pox.
FROG'S WINE. Gin.
FRUITFUL VINE. A woman's private parts, i.e. that has
FLOWERS every month, and bears fruit in nine months.
FRUMMAGEMMED. Choaked, strangled, suffocated, or
hanged. CANT.
FUBSEY. Plump. A fubsey wench; a plump, healthy
wench.
FUDDLE. Drunk. This is rum fuddle; this is excellent
tipple, or drink. Fuddle; drunk. Fuddle cap; a drunkard.
FUDGE. Nonsense.
FULHAMS. Loaded dice are called high and lowmen, or
high and low fulhams, by Ben Jonson and other writers of
his time; either because they were made at Fulham, or from
that place being the resort of sharpers.
FULL OF EMPTINESS. Jocular term for empty.
FULL MARCH. The Scotch greys are in full march by the
crown office; the lice are crawling down his head.
FUMBLER. An old or impotent man. To fumble, also
means to go awkwardly about any work, or manual
operation.
FUN. A cheat, or trick. Do you think to fun me out of
it? Do you think to cheat me? Also the breech, perhaps [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]