Fantastically dressed, with more rags than ribands.
Fart. He has let a brewer’s fart,
grains and all; said of
one who has bewrayed his breeches.
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, &c.
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.
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.


