Fumbler. An old or impotent man. To
fumble, also
means to go awkwardly about any work,
or manual
operation.
Fun. A cheat, or trick. Do you think
to fun me out of
it? Do you think to cheat me?—Also
the breech, perhaps
from being the abbreviation of fundament.
I’ll kick your
fun. Cant.
To funk. To use an unfair motion of
the hand in plumping
at taw. Schoolboy’s term.
Funk. To smoke; figuratively, to smoke or
stink through
fear. I was in a cursed funk.
To funk the cobler; a
schoolboy’s trick, performed with
assafoettida and cotton,
which
are stuffed into a pipe: the cotton
being lighted, and the
bowl of the pipe covered with a coarse
handkerchief, the
smoke is blown out at the small end, through
the crannies
of a cobler’s stall.
FURMEN. Aldermen.
Furmity, or fromenty. Wheat boiled
up to a jelly. To
simper like a furmity kettle: to
smile, or look merry about
the gills.
Fuss. A confusion, a hurry, an unnecessary
to do about
trifles.
FUSSOCK. A lazy fat woman. An old fussock;
a frowsy
old woman.
Fustian. Bombast language. Red fustian; port wine.
Fusty LUGGS. A beastly, sluttish woman.
To fuzz. To shuffle cards minutely:
also, to change the
pack.
Gab, or gob. The mouth. Gift of
the gab; a facility
of speech, nimble tongued eloquence.
To blow the gab;
to confess, or peach.
Gab, or gob, string. A bridle.
Gabby. A foolish fellow.
Gad-so. An exclamation said to be derived
from the
Italian word cazzo.
Gaff. A fair. The drop coves maced
the joskins at the
gaff; the ring-droppers cheated the countryman
at the fair.
To gaff. To game by tossing up halfpence.
Gag. An instrument used chiefly by housebreakers
and
thieves, for propping open the mouth of
a person robbed,
thereby to prevent his calling out for
assistance.
Gage. A quart pot, or a pint; also a pipe. Cant.
Gage, or fogus. A pipe of tobacco.
GAGGERS. High and Low. Cheats, who by sham
pretences, and wonderful stories of their
sufferings, impose on
the credulity of well meaning people.
See rum gagger.
GALIMAUFREY. A hodgepodge made up of the remnants
and scraps of the larder.
Gall. His gall is not yet broken; a saying
used in prisons
of a man just brought in, who appears
dejected.


