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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.
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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.
FIGGER. A little boy put in at a window to hand out
goods to the diver. See DIVER.
FIGGING LAW. The art of picking pockets. CANT.
FIGURE DANCER. One who alters figures on bank notes,
converting tens to hundreds.
FILCH, or FILEL. A beggar's staff, with an iron hook at
the end, to pluck clothes from an hedge, or any thing out
of a casement. Filcher; the same as angler. Filching
cove; a man thief. Filching mort; a woman thief.
FILE, FILE CLOY, or BUNGNIPPER. A pick pocket. To
file; to rob or cheat. The file, or bungnipper, goes
generally in company with two assistants, the adam tiler, and
another called the bulk or bulker, Whose business it is to
jostle the person they intend to rob, and push him against
the wall, while the file picks his pocket, and gives'the booty
to the adam tiler, who scours off with it. CANT.
FIN. An arm. A one finned fellow; a man who has lost
an arm. SEA PHRASE.
FINE. Fine as five pence. Fine as a cow-t d stuck with
primroses.
FINE. A man imprisoned for any offence. A fine of eighty-
four months; a transportation for seven years.
FINGER IN EYE. To put finger in eye; to weep: commonly
applied to women. The more you cry the less
you'll p-ss; a consolatory speech used by sailors to their
doxies. It is as great a pity to see a woman cry, as to
see a goose walk barefoot; another of the same kind.
FINGER POST. A parson: so called, because he points out
a way to others which he never goes himself. Like the
finger post, he points out a way he has never been, and
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probably will never go, i.e. the way to heaven.
FINISH. The finish; a small coffee-house in Coven Garden,
market, opposite Russel-street, open very early in the
morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out
of every other house: it is also called Carpenter's coffee-
house.
FIRING A GUN. Introducing a story by head and shoulders.
A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the
company, Hark! did you not hear a gun? but now we are
talking of a gun, I will tell you the story of one.
TO FIRE A SLUG. To drink a dram.
FIRE PRIGGERS. Villains who rob at fires under pretence
of assisting in removing the goods.
FIRE SHIP. A wench who has the venereal disease.
FIRE SHOVEL. He or she when young, was fed with a fire
shovel; a saying of persons with wide mouths.
FISH. A seaman. A scaly fish; a rough, blunt tar. To
have other fish to fry; to have other matters to mind,
something else to do.
FIT. Suitable. It won't fit; It will not suit or do.
FIVE SHILLINGS. The sign of five shillings, i.e. the crown.
Fifteen shillings; the sign of the three crowns.
FIZZLE. An escape backward,
FLABAGASTED. Confounded.
FLABBY. Relaxed, flaccid, not firm or solid.
FLAG. A groat. CANT. The flag of defiance, or bloody flag
is out; signifying the man is drunk, and alluding to the
redness of his face. SEA PHRASE.
FLAM. A lie, or sham story: also a single stroke on a drum.
To flam; to hum, to amuse, to deceive. Flim flams; idle
stories.
FLAP DRAGON. A clap, or pox.
To FLARE. To blaze, shine or glare.
FLASH. Knowing. Understanding another's meaning. The
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swell was flash, so I could not draw his fogle. The
gentleman saw what I was about, and therefore I could not
pick his pocket of his silk handkerchief. To patter flash,
to speak the slang language. See PATTER.
FLASH PANNEYS. Houses to which thieves and prostitutes
resort.
Next for his favourite MOT (Girl) the KIDDEY (Youth) looks
about,
And if she's in a FLASH PANNEY (Brothel) he swears he'll have
her out;
So he FENCES (Pawns) all his TOGS (Cloathes) to buy her DUDS,
(Wearing Apparel) and then
He FRISKS (Robs) his master's LOB (Till) to take her from the
bawdy KEN (House).
FLASH SONG.
FLASH. A periwig. Rum flash; a fine long wig. Queer
flash; a miserable weather-beaten caxon.
To FLASH. To shew ostentatiously. To flash one's ivory;
to laugh and shew one's teeth. Don't flash your ivory, but
shut your potatoe trap, and keep your guts warm; the
Devil loves hot tripes.
To FLASH THE HASH. To vomit. CANT.
FLASH KEN. A house that harbours thieves.
FLASH LINGO. The canting or slang language.
FLASH MAN. A bully to a bawdy house. A whore's bully.
FLAT. A bubble, gull, or silly fellow.
FLAT COCK. A female.
FLAWD. Drunk.
FLAYBOTTOMIST. A bum-brusher, or schoolmaster.
To FLAY, or FLEA, THE FOX. To vomit.
FLEA BITE. A trifling injury. To send any one away with
a flea in his ear; to give any one a hearty scolding.
To FLEECE. To rob, cheat, or plunder.
FLEMISH ACCOUNT. A losing, or bad account.
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FLESH BROKER. A match-maker, a bawd.
FLICKER. A drinking glass. CANT.
FLICKERING. Grinning or laughing in a man's face.
FLICKING. Cutting. Flick me some panam and caffan;
cut me some bread and cheese. Flick the peter; cut off
the cloak-bag, or portmanteau.
To FLING. To trick or cheat. He flung me fairly out of it:
he cheated me out of it.
FLINTS. Journeymen taylors, who on a late occasion refused
to work for the wages settled by law. Those who submitted,
were by the mutineers styled dungs, i.e. dunghills.
FLIP. Small beer, brandy, and sugar: this mixture, with
the addition of a lemon, was by sailors, formerly called Sir
Cloudsly, in memory of Sir Cloudsly Shovel, who used
frequently to regale himself with it.
FLOATING ACADEMY. See CAMPBELL'S ACADEMY.
FLOATING HELL. The hulks.
TO FLOG. To whip.
FLOGGER. A horsewhip. CANT.
FLOGGING CULLY. A debilitated lecher, commonly an old
one.
FLOGGING COVE. The beadle, or whipper, in Bridewell.
FLOGGING STAKE. The whipping-post.
TO FLOOR. To knock down. Floor the pig; knock down
the officer.
FLOURISH. To take a flourish; to enjoy a woman in a hasty
manner, to take a flyer. See FLYER.
TO FLOUT. To jeer, to ridicule.
FLUMMERY. Oatmeal and water boiled to a jelly; also
compliments, neither of which are over-nourishing.
FLUSH IN THE POCKET. Full of money. The cull is
flush in the fob. The fellow is full of money.
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FLUSTERED. Drunk.
FLUTE. The recorder of a corporation; a recorder was an
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