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.

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.

Flustered. Drunk.

Flute.  The recorder of a corporation; a recorder was an
  antient musical instrument.

To flux.  To cheat, cozen, or over-reach; also to salivate. 
  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.