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.
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.


