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[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] Piss and fart. Sound at heart. Mingere cum bumbis, Res saluberrima est lumbis. I dare not trust my a-se with a fart: said by a person troubled with a looseness. FART CATCHER. A valet or footman from his walking behind his master or mistress. FARTING CRACKERS. Breeches. FARTLEBERRIES. Excrement hanging about the anus. FASTNER. A warrant. FASTNESSES. Bogs. FAT. The last landed, inned, or stowed, of any sort of merchandise: so called by the water-side porters, carmen, All the fat is in the fire; that is, it is all over with us: a saying used in case of any miscarriage or disappointment in an undertaking; an allusion to overturning the frying pan into the fire. Fat, among printers, means void spaces. AS FAT AS A HEN IN THE FOREHEAD. A saying of a meagre person. FAT CULL. A rich fellow. FAT HEADED. Stupid. FAULKNER. A tumbler, juggler, or shewer of tricks; perhaps because they lure the people, as a faulconer does his hawks. CANT. F 92 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1419100076 FAYTORS, or FATORS. Fortune tellers. FAWNEY RIG. A common fraud, thus practised: A fellow drops a brass ring, double gilt, which he picks up before the party meant to be cheated, and to whom he disposes of it for less than its supposed, and ten times more than its real, value. See MONEY DROPPER. FAWNEY. A ring. FEAGUE. To feague a horse; to put ginger up a horse's fundament, and formerly, as it is said, a live eel, to make him lively and carry his tail well; it is said, a forfeit is incurred by any horse-dealer's servant, who shall shew a horse without first feaguing him. Feague is used, figuratively, for encouraging or spiriting one up. FEAK. The fundament. To FEATHER ONE'S NEST. To enrich one's self. FEATHER-BED LANE. A rough or stony lane. FEE, FAW, FUM. Nonsensical words, supposed in childish story-books to be spoken by giants. I am not to be frighted by fee, faw, fum; I am not to be scared by nonsense. FEEDER. A spoon. To nab the feeder; to steal a spoon. FEET. To make feet for children's stockings; to beget children. An officer of feet; a jocular title for an officer of infantry. FEINT. A sham attack on one part, when a real one is meant at another. FELLOW COMMONER. An empty bottle: so called at the university of Cambridge, where fellow commoners are not in general considered as over full of learning. At Oxford an empty bottle is called a gentleman commoner for the same reason. They pay at Cambridge 250 l. a year for the privilege of wearing a gold or silver tassel to their caps. The younger branches of the nobility have the privilege of wearing a hat, and from thence are denominated HAT FELLOW COMMONERS. FEN. A bawd, or common prostitute. CANT. TO FENCE. To pawn or sell to a receiver of stolen goods. The kiddey fenced his thimble for three quids; the young fellow pawned his watch for three guineas. To fence F 93 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1419100076 invariably means to pawn or sell goods to a receiver. FENCING KEN. The magazine, or warehouse, where stolen goods are secreted. FERME. A hole. CANT. FERMERDY BEGGARS. All those who have not the sham sores or clymes. FERRARA. Andrea Ferrara; the name of a famous sword- cutler: most of the Highland broad-swords are marked with his name; whence an Andrea Ferrara has become the common name for the glaymore or Highland broad- sword. See GLAYMORE. FERRET. A tradesman who sells goods to youug unthrift heirs, at excessive rates, and then continually duns them for the debt. To ferret; to search out or expel any one from his hiding-place, as a ferret drives out rabbits; also to cheat. Ferret-eyed; red-eyed: ferrets have red eyes. FETCH. A trick, wheedle, or invention to deceive. FEUTERER. A dog-keeper: from the French vautrier, or vaultrier, one that leads a lime hound for the chase. TO FIB. To beat. Fib the cove's quarron in the rumpad for the lour in his bung; beat the fellow in the highway for the money in his purse. CANT. A fib is also a tiny lie. FICE, or FOYSE. A small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs. See FIZZLE. FID OF TOBACCO. A quid, from the small pieces of tow with which the vent or touch hole of a cannon is stopped. SEA TERM. FIDDLE FADDLE. Trifling discourse, nonsense. A mere fiddle faddle fellow; a trifier. FIDDLESTICK'S END. Nothing; the end of the ancient fiddlesticks ending in a point; hence metaphorically used to express a thing terminating in nothing. FIDGETS. He has got the fidgets; said of one that cannot sit long in a place. FIDLAM BEN. General thieves; called also St. Peter's sons, having every finger a fish-hook. CANT. F 94 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1419100076 FIDDLERS MONEY. All sixpences: sixpence being the usual sum paid by each couple, for music at country wakes and hops. Fiddler's fare; meat, drink, and money. Fiddler's pay; thanks and wine. FIELD LANE DUCK. A baked sheep's head. FIERI FACIAS. A red-faced man is said to have been served with a writ of fieri facias. FIGDEAN. To kill. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |