1611.Middleton,Roaring Girl, Act iii., Sc. 3.S. Alex.Then he’s a graduate.S. Davy.Say they trust him not.S. Alex.Then is he held afreshmanand a sot.1767.Colman,Oxonian in Town, ii., 3. And now I find you as dull and melancholy as afreshmanat college after a jobation.1841.Lever,Charles O’Malley, ch. xiv. ‘This is his third year,’ said the Doctor, ‘and he is only afreshman, having lost every examination.’1891.Sporting Life, 20 Mar. The mile, bar accidents, will be a gift to B. C. Allen, of Corpus, who has more than maintained the reputation he gained as afresher.Adj.(University).—Of, or pertaining to, afreshman, or a first year student.Freshmanship,subs.(old).—Of the quality or state of being a freshman.1605.Jonson,Volpone, or the Fox, iv., 3. Well, wise Sir Pol., since you have practised thus, Upon myfreshmanship, I’ll try your salt-head With what proof it is against a counter-plot.Freshman’s Bible,subs. phr.(University).—The University Calendar.Freshman’s Church,subs. phr.(University).—The Pitt Press at Cambridge. [From its ecclesiastical architecture.]Freshman’s Landmark,subs. phr.(University).—King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. [From the situation.]Freshwater Mariner(orSeaman),subs. phr.(old).—A beggar shamming sailor; aturnpike sailor(q.v.).1567.Harman,Caveat(1869), p. 48.Thesefreshwater mariners, their shipes were drowned in the playne of Salisbury. These kynde … counterfet great losses on the sea.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Freshwater seamen, that have never been on the Salt, or made any Voyage, meer Land-Men.Freshwater Soldier,subs. phr.(old).—A raw recruit.1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes, Biancone. A goodly, great milke-soppe, afresh water soldier.1603.Knolles,Hist. of the Turkes. The nobility, asfreshwater soldiers, which had never seen but some slight skirmishes, made light account of the Turks.1696.Nomenclator.Bachelier aux armes, nouveau ou jeune soudard. Afreshwater souldier: a young souldier: a novice: one that is trayned up to serve in the field.[73]Fret,To fret one’s gizzard,guts,giblets,kidneys,cream, etc.,verb. phr.(common).—To get harassed and worried about trifles;to tear one’s shirt(q.v.).Friar,subs.(printers’).—A pale spot in a printed sheet. Fr.,un moine(= monk).Frib,subs.(old).—A stick. For synonyms,seeToko.1754.Discoveries of John Poulter, p. 43. A Jacob andfrib; a ladder and stick.Fribble,subs.(old).—A trifler; a contemptible fop. [From the character in Garrick’sMiss in her Teens(1747)].1785.Grose,Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.1860.Thackeray,Four Georges. George IV.Thatfribble, the leader of such men as Fox and Burke!Friday-face,subs.(old).—A gloomy, dejected-looking man or woman. [Probably from Friday being, ecclesiastically, the banyan day of the week.] Fr.,figure de carême.1592.Greene,Groatsworth of Wit, in wks. xii., 120. The Foxe made aFriday-face, counterfeiting sorrow.1785.Grose,Dict. of the Vulg. Tongue, s.v.1889.Gentleman’s Mag., June, p. 593.Friday-faceis a term still occasionally applied to a sour-visaged person; it was formerly in very common use.Friday-faced,adj.(old).—Mortified; melancholy; ‘sour-featured’ (Scott).1592.John Day,Blind Beggar, Act iii., Sc. 2, p. 57.Can.No, youFriday-fac’dfrying-pan, it was to save us all from whipping or a worse shame.1606.Wily Beguiled(HawkinsEng. Dr., iii., 356). Marry, out upon him! What aFriday-fac’dslave it is! I think in my conscience his face never keeps holiday.Friend(orLittle Friend),subs.—The menstrual flux ordomestic afflictions(q.v.), whose appearance is sometimes announced by the formula ‘My little friend has come.’ Conventionalisms are queer; poorly; changes (Irish); ‘the Captain’s at home’ (Grose).SeeFlag.To go and see a sick friend,verb. phr.(venery).—To go on the loose.SeeGreens.Friend Charles.SeeCharles his friend.Friendly Lead,subs. phr.(thieves’).—An entertainment (as a sing-song) got up to assist a companion introuble(q.v.), or to raise money for the wife and children of a ‘quodded pal.’1871.Daily Telegraph, 4 Dec. This was the secret business, the tremendous conspiracy, to compass which it was deemed necessary to act with infinitely more caution than the friends of Bill Sikes feel called on to exercise when they distribute tickets for afriendly leadfor the benefit of Bill, who is ‘just out of his trouble.’1889.Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 5 Jan. The men frequently club together in afriendly leadto help a brother in distress.1892.Ally Sloper, 2 Apr., p. 106, col. 3. My father takes the chair atfriendly leads.Friends in Need,subs. phr.(common).—Lice. For synonyms,seeChates.Frig,verb trans. and refl.(venery).—To masturbate. Alsosubs.= an act of masturbation. Known sometimes askeeping down the census. [Latin,fricare= to rub.]English Synonyms.—To bob; to box the Jesuit [‘St. Omer’s lewdness,’ Marston,[74]‘Scourge’ (1598)]; to chuff; to chuffer; to claw (Florio); to digitate (of women); to eat (or get) cock-roaches; to bring up (or off) by hand; to fight one’s turkey (Texan); to finger or finger-fuck (of women); to friggle (Florio); to fuck one’s fist (of men); to fetch mettle (Grose); to handle; to indorse; to jerk, play, pump, toss, or work off; to lark; to milk; to mount a corporal and four; to mess, or pull about; to play with (schoolboys’), to rub up; to shag; to tickle one’s crack (of women); to dash one’s doodle; to touch up; to play paw-paw tricks (Grose); to wriggle (old). For foreign synonyms,seeWriggle.1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes.Fricciare… tofrig, to wriggle, to tickle.1611.Cotgrave,Dictionarie.Branler la pique,To Frig.1728.Bailey,Dict., s.v.Frig, to rub.c.1716–1746.Robertsonof Struan.Poems, 83. So to a House of office … a School-Boy does repair, To … fr—— his P—— there.1785.Grose,Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.Frigate,subs.(common).—A woman.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Friggatwell rigg’d, a woman well drest and gentile.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue. A well-rigg’dfrigate, a well-dressed wench.Frigging,subs.(venery).—1. The act of masturbation; the ‘cynick friction’ (Marston,Scourge); otherwisesimple infanticide.2. (old).—Trifling [Grose, 1785.]Adj. and adv.(vulgar).—An expletive of intensification. Thus,frigging bad= ‘bloody’ bad; afrigging idiot= an absolute fool.SeealsoFouteringandFucking.Frightfully,adv.(colloquial).—Very. An expletive used as areawfully,beastly,bloody, etc. (q.v.).Frig-pig,subs.(old).—A finnicking trifler.1785.Grose,Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v.1811.Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.Frigster(in fem.Frigstress)subs.(venery).—A masturbator; anindorser(q.v., also = a Sodomite).Frillery,subs.(common).—Feminine underclothing. For synonyms,seeSnowy.To explore one’s frillery(venery) = to grope one’s person.Frills,subs.(American).—Swagger; conceit; also accomplishments (as music, languages, etc.); and culture;cf.,Man with no frills.1870.Sacramento Paper(quoted inDe Vere). ‘I can’t bear his talk, it’s allfrills.’1884.Clemens(‘Mark Twain’),Adventures of HuckFinn.33. I never see such a son. I bet I’ll take some of thesefrillsout of you before I’m done with you.To put on one’s frills,verb. phr.(American).—To exaggerate;to chant the poker; to swagger; to put onside(q.v.); tosing it(q.v.). Fr.,se gonfler le jabot, andfaire son lard.1890.Rudyard Kipling,National Observer, March, 1890, p. 69. ‘The Oont.’ It’s the commissariat camelputting on his blooming frills.[75]2. (venery).—To get wanton orprick-proud(q.v.); in a state ofmust(q.v.).To have been among one’s frills,verb. phr.(venery).—To have enjoyed the sexual favour. For synonyms,seeGreens.Frint,subs.(old).—A pawnbroker. For synonyms,seeUncle.1821.Real Life in London, i., p. 566.Frisco,subs.(American).—Short for San Francisco.1870.Bret Harte,Poems, ‘Chiquita.’ Busted hisself at White Pine, and blew out his brains down inFrisco.1890.Sporting Life, 8 Nov. The battle … took place in the theatre, Market St.,Frisco.Frisk,subs.(old).—1. A frolic; an outing; alark(q.v.); mischief generally.1697.Vanbrugh,Provoked Wife, iii., 1. If you have a mind to take afriskwith us, I have an interest with my lord; I can easily introduce you.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.1825.The English Spy, vi., p. 162. Dick’s atrumpand notelegraph—up to everyfrisk, and down to everymoveof the domini, thoroughbred and nowant of courage.1852.Dickens,Bleak House, ch. xx., p. 171. ‘When you and I had thefriskdown in Lincolnshire, Guppy, and drove over toseethat house at Castle Wold.’2. (old).—A dance.1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., i., 274. Let’s have a neatfriskor so, And then rub on the law.1782.Cowper,Table Talk, 237. Give him his lass, his fiddle, and hisfrisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may.1880.Ouida,Moths, ch. xiv. And her fancy-dressfrisks, and her musical breakfasts, were great successes.3. (venery).—The act of copulation.SeeGreensandRide.Verb(thieves’).—1. To search;to run the rule over(q.v.); Especially applied to the search made, after arrest, for evidence of character, antecedents, or identity. Hence, careful examination of any kind.1781.Geo.Parker,Life’s Painter, p. 179. Theyfriskhim? That is search him.Ibid., p. 122.Puttinga lap-feeder in our sack, that you or your blowen had prig’d yourselves though we should stand thefriskfor it.1828.Jon. Bee,Pict. of London. p. 69. The arms are seized from behind by one, whilst the otherfrisksthe pockets of their contents.1852.Judson,Mysteries, etc.,of New York, ch. vii. Vel sare, the offisare ’avefriskme: he ’ave not found ze skin or ze dummy, eh?1859.Matsell,Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, p. 21. ‘The knuck was copped to rights, a skin full of honey was found in his kick’s poke by the copper when hefriskedhim’; [i.e.] the pickpocket was arrested, and when searched by the officer a purse was found in his pantaloons pocket full of money.2. (thieves’).—To pick pockets; to rob.To frisk a cly= to empty a pocket.1852.Judson,Mysteries, etc. of New York, ch. iv. You’re as good a knuck as everfriskeda swell.1883.Daily Telegraph, 13 June, p. 7, col. 3. The ragged little wretches who prowl in gangs about the suburbs, who crawl on their hands and knees into shops in order to ‘friskthe till.’3. (venery).—To ‘have(q.v.) a woman.’ For synonyms,seeRide.To dance the Paddington frisk,verb. phr.(old).—To dance on nothing;i.e., to be hanged. [Tyburn Tree was in Paddington.] For synonyms,seeLadder.[76]Frisker,subs.(old).—A dancer.1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., ii., 20. At no Whitsun Ale there e’er yet had been Such Fraysters andFriskersas these lads and lasses.FrivolorFrivvle,verb.(colloquial).—To act frivolously; to trifle. [A resuscitation of an old word used in another sense, viz., to annul, to set aside].1883.W. Black,Yolande, ch. xx. ‘Mind, I am assuming that you mean business—if you want tofrivole, and pick pretty posies, I shut my door on you but, I say, if you mean business, I have told Mrs. Bell you are to have access to my herbarium, whether I am there or not.’Frog,subs.(common).—1. A policeman. For synonyms,seeBeakandCopper.1881.New York Slang Dict., ‘On the Trail.’ I must amputate like a go-away, or thefrogswill nail me.1886.Graphic, 30 Jan., p. 130, col. 1. A policeman is also called … a ‘frog,’the last-named because he is supposed to jump, as it were, suddenly upon guilty parties.2. (common).—A Frenchman. Alsofroggyandfrog-eater. [Formerly a Parisian; the shield of whose city bore three toads, while the quaggy state of the streets gave point to a jest common at Versailles before 1791:Qu’en disent les grenouilles?i.e., What do thefrogs(the people of Paris) say?]1883.Referee, 15 July, p. 7, col. 3. While Ned from Boulogne says ‘Oui mon brave,’ The Froggies must answer for‘Tamatave.’3. (popular).—A foot. For synonyms,seeCreepers.To frog on,verb. phr.(American).—To get on; to prosperfrogging-on= success.Frog-and-Toad,subs.(rhyming).—The main road.Frog-and-Toe,subs.(American thieves’).—The city of New York.1859.Matsell,Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, p. 35. Coves, let usfrog-and-toe, coves, let us go to New York.Froglander,subs.(old).—A Dutchman.Cf.,frog, sense 2.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v.1852.Judson,Mysteries, etc.,of New York, ch. xiv. The funny swag which they raised out of thefroglandercoves.Frog-salad,subs.(American).—A ballet;i.e., aleg-piece(q.v.).Frog’s March.To give the frog’s march,verb. phr.(common).—To carry a man face downwards to the station; a device adopted with drunken or turbulent prisoners.1871.Evening Standard, ‘Clerkenwell Police Report,’ 18 April. In cross-examination the police stated that they did not give the defendant thefrog’s march. Thefrog’s marchwas described to be carrying the face downwards.1884.Daily News, Oct. 4, p. 5, col. 2. They had to resort to a mode of carrying him, familiarly known in the force, we believe, as thefrog trot, or sometimes as thefrog’s march.… The prisoner is carried with his face downwards and his arms drawn behind him.1888.Daily Telegraph, 22 Dec. Whether the ‘bobbies’ ran the tipsy man in, treating him meanwhile to a taste of thefrog’s march, and whether he was fined or imprisoned for assaulting the police, is not upon the record.1890.Bird o’ Freedom, 19 Mar., p. 1,col. 1. And then he gets thefrog’s marchto the nearest Tealeaf’s.[77]Frog’s Wine,subs. phr.(old).—Gin. For synonyms,seeDrinksandSatin.1811.Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.Frolic,subs.(common).—A merry-making.1847.Robb.Squatter Life, p. 133. At all thefrolicksround the country, Jess was hangin’ onter that gal.Frosty-face,subs.(old).—A pox-pitted man. Grose (1785).Front,verb(thieves’).—To conceal the operations of a pickpocket; tocover(q.v.).1879.J. W. HorsleyinMacmillan’s Mag., XL., 506. So my pal said, ‘Frontme (cover me), and I will do him for it.’Front-attic(or-door,-garden,-parlour,-room, or-window).subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.To have(ordo) abit of front-door work= to copulate.1823.Bee,Dict. of the Turf, s.v. Mrs. Fubb’sfront-parlour(videTom Rees) is not to be mistaken for any part of any building.Front-door Mat,subs. phr.(venery).—The female pubic hair. For synonyms,seeFleece.Front-gut,subs.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.Frontispiece,subs.(pugilists’).—The face. For synonyms,seeDial.1818.P. Egan,Boxiana, I., p. 221. Tyne put in right and left upon the Jew’sfrontispiecetwo such severe blows, that Crabbe’s countenance underwent a trifling change.1845.Buckstone,Green Bushes, i., 1. It’s a marcy my switch didn’t come in contract with your iligantfrontispiece.1860.Chambers’ Journal XIII., p. 368. His forehead is hisfrontispiece.1864.A. Trollope,Sm. Ho. at Allington(1884), vol. ii., ch. V., p. 47. He said that he had had an accident—or rather, a row—and that he had come out of it with considerable damage to hisfrontispiece.1891.Sporting Life, 28 Mar. It must be confessed that the ludicrous was attained when Griffiths subsequently appeared with a short black pipe in his distorted and batteredfrontispiece.Front-windows,subs.(common).—1. The eyes; also the face.2. Insing.(venery).—The femalepudendum.Cf.,front-attic; and for synonyms,seeMonosyllable.Frost,subs.(common).—A complete failure.Cf., Fr.,un four noir. Alsoun temps noir= a blank interval; a prolonged silence (as when an actor’s memory fails him).1885.Saturday Review, 15 Aug., p. 218. He is an absolute and perfectfrost.1885.Bell’s Life, 3 Jan., p. 3, col. 6. We regret we cannot write favorably concerning this matter, the affair being almost as big afrostathletically as it was financially.1889.Star, 17 Jan. The pantomime was a deadfrost.2. (common).—A dearth of work;to have a frost= to be idle.Froudacious,Froudacity,adj.andsubs.Seequots.1888.Colonies and India, 14 Nov. The word ‘Froudacity,’ invented by Mr. Darnell Davis in his able review ofThe Bow of Ulysses, recently published, has reached the height of popularity in theAustralasianColonies, where it has come into everyday use. In the Melbourne Assembly the other day an hon. member observed—speaking of some remarks made by a previous speaker—that he never heard[78]suchfroudaciousstatements in his life. The colonial papers are beginning, also, to spell the word with a small ‘f,’ which is significant.1889.Graphic, 16 Feb. By exposing some of Mr. Froude’s manifold errors (the most dangerous is that which assumes the sour Waikato clays to be rich because they grow fern) he justifies the Australian adjectiveFroudacious.Froust,subs.(Harrow School).—1. Extra sleep allowed on Sunday mornings and whole holidays. Fr.,faire du lard.2. (common).—A stink; stuffiness (in a room).Frousty,adj.(common).—Stinking.Frout,adj.(Winchester College).—Angry; vexed.Frow(orFroe, orVroe),subs.(old).—A woman; a wife; a mistress. [From the Dutch.]1607.Dekker,Westward Ho, ActV., Sc. 1. Eat with ’em as hungerly as soldiers; drink as if we werefroes.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew, V. Brush to yourfroeand wheedle for crap, c. whip to your mistress and speak her fair to give or lend you some Money.1754.B. Martin,Eng. Dict.(2 ed.), s.v.1789.Parker,Life’s Painter, p. 119 A flash of lightning next Bess tipt each cull andfrow.Fruitful Vine,subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.1811.Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.Fruitful vine. A woman’s private parts,i.e., that has flowers every month, and bears fruit in nine.Frummagemed,adj.(old).—Choked; strangled; spoilt.1671.R. Head,English Rogue, Pt. I., ch. v., 49 (1874).Frummagem, Choakt.1724.E. Coles,Eng. Dict.Frummigam,c.choaked.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Choaked, strangled, or hanged. Cant.1815.Scott,Guy Mannering, ch. xxviii. ‘If I had not helped you with these very fambles (holding up her hands), Jean Baillie would havefrummagem’dyou, ye feckless do-little!’1819.Moore,Tom Crib’s Memorial, p. 21. There he lay, almostfrummagem’d.Frump,subs.(old).—1. A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a sneer; a jest.1553.Wilson,Art of Rhetorique, p. 137. (He) shall be able to abashe a right worthie man, and make him at his witte’s ende, through the sodaine quicke and vnlookedfrumpegiuen.1589.Greene,Menaphon, p. 45. For women’s paines are more pinching if they be girded with afrumpethan if they be galled with a mischiefe.1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes.Bichiacchia, jestes, toyes,frumps, flim-flam tales, etc.1606.T. Dekker,Seven Deadly Sinnes, p. 44 (ed. Arber). The courtiers gives you an open scoffe, ye clown a secret mock, the cittizen yat dwels at your threshald, a ieeryfrump.1630.Taylor,Works. But yet, me thinkes, he gives thee but afrumpe, In telling how thee kist a wenches rumpe.1662.Rump Songs, ‘Arsy-Varsy,’etc., ii., 47. As a preface of honor and not as afrump, First with a Sir reverence ushers the Rump.1668.Dryden,An Evening’s Love, Act IV. Sc. 3. Not to be behindhand with you in yourfrumps, I give you back your purse of gold.2. (common).—A slattern; more commonly a prim old lady; the correlative offogey(q.v.). Fr.,un graillon.1831.J. R. Planché,Olympic Revels, Sc. i. Cheat, you stingyfrump! Who wants to cheat?1837.Barham,Ingoldsby Legends, I., p. 157. Get into the hands of the other oldfrumps.[79]1857.Thackeray,Virginians, ch. xxxi. She is changed now, isn’t she? What an old Gorgon it is! She is a great patroness of your book-men, and when that oldfrumpwas young they actually made verses about her.3. (old).—A cheat; a trick.1602.Rowland,Greene’s Ghost, 37. They come off with their …frumps.Verb(old).—To mock; to insult.1589.Nashe,Month’s Mind, in Works, Vol. I., p. 158. One of them … maketh a iest ofPrinces, and ‘the troubling of the State, and offending of her Maiestie,’ hee turneth of with afrumpingforsooth, as though it were a toie to think of it.1593.G. Harvey,Pierces Super, in Works II., 107. That despiseth the graces of God, flowteth the constellations of heaven,frumpeththe operations of nature.1609.Man in the Moone.Hee …frumpeththose his mistresse frownes on.1757.Garrick,Irish Widow, I., i. Yes, he wasfrumped, and called me old blockhead.Frumper,subs.(old).—A sturdy man; a good blade.1825.Kent,Modern Flash Dict., s.v.Frumpish,adj.(colloquial).—Cross-grained; old-fashioned and severe in dress, manners, morals, and notions; ill-natured; given to frumps. AlsoFrumpy.1589.Greene,Tullies Love, in wks. vii., 131. Who were you but as fauourable, as you arefrumpish, would soone censure by my talke, how deepe I am reade in loues principles.1701.Farquhar,Sir Harry Wildair, Act. V., Sc. 5. She got, I don’t know how, a crotchet of jealousy in her head. This made herfrumpish, but we had ne’er an angry word.1757.Foote,Author, Act II. And methought she looked veryfrumpishand jealous.1764.O’Hara,Midas, I., 3. La! mother, why sofrumpish?1864.Dickens,Our Mutual Friend, Bk. I., ch. xi. ‘Don’t fancy me afrumpyold married woman, my dear; I was married but the other day, you know.’1889.Modern Society, 12 Oct., p.1271, col. 2. Quite an elderly and superannuated look is given to the toilette which is finished off by a woollen cloud or silken shawl, and only invalids and sixty-year-old women should be allowed suchfrumpishprivileges.Frushee,subs.(Scots’).—An open jam tart.Fry,verb(common).—To translate into plain English.Cf.,boil down.1881.Jas. Payn,Grape from a Thorn, ch. xxx. ‘I shall repose the greatest confidence in you, my dear girl, which one human being can entrust to another,’ was one of its sentences, which, when it came ‘to befried,’ meant that she should delegate to her the duties of combing Fido and cutting her canary’s claws.Go and fry your face,phr.(common).—A retort expressive of incredulity, derision, or contempt.Frying-pan.To jump from the frying-pan into the fire,verb. phr.(common).—To go from bad to worse.Cf., ‘from the smoke into the smother’ (As You Like it, i., 2.). Fr.,tomber de la poêle dans la braise.1684.Bunyan,Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II. Some, though they shun thefrying-pan, do leap into the fire.To Fry the Pewter,verb.phr.(thieves’).—To melt down pewter measures.F Sharp,subs. phr.(common).—A flea;cf., B flat.Fuant,subs.(old).—Excrement.—B. E.Dict. of the Canting Crew.Fub,verb. (old).—To cheat; to steal; to put off with false excuses. AlsoFubbery= cheating, stealing, deception.[80]1598.Shakspeare,2 Henry IV., II., 1. I have borne, and borne, and borne, and have beenfubbed off, andfubbed offfrom this day to that day.1604.Marston,Malcontent, i., 3. O no; but dream the most fantastical. O heaven!O fubbery! fubbery!1619.Fletcher,Mons. Thomas, ii., 2. My letterfubb’dtoo.1647.Cartwright,Ordinary.iv., 4. I won’t befubbed.FubseyorFubsy,adj.(old).—Plump; fat; well-filled.Fubsy dummy= a well-filled pocket book;fubsywench = a plump girl.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.1825.English Spy, I., p. 188. Old dowagers, theirfubsyfaces, Painted to eclipse the Graces.1837.Marryat,Snarley-yow, I., ch. viii. Seated on the widow’s littlefubsysofa.Fubsiness,subs.(common).—Any sort of fatness.Fuck,subs.(venery).—1. An act of coition. For synonyms,seeGreens.2. (venery).—The seminal fluid. For synonyms,seeCream.Verb.(common).—To copulate. For synonyms,seeGreensandRide.c.1540.David Lyndsay, ‘Flyting with King James.’ Ayefukkandlike ane furious fornicator.1568.Clerk,Bannatyne MSS., Hunterian Soc. Publication, p. 298. He clappit fast, he kist, he chukkit, As with the glaikkis he wer ourgane; Yit be his feiris he wald haiffukkit.1568. Anonymous,Bannatyne MSS., Hunterian Soc. Publication, p. 399. ‘In Somer when Flouris will Smell.’ Allace! said sch, my awin sweit thing, Your courtlyfukkinggaris me fling, Ye wirk sae weill.1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes, Fottere. To jape; to sarde, tofucke; to swive; to occupy.1620.Percy,Folio MSS., p. 459. [Hales and Furnivall, 1867.] A mighty mind to clipp, kisse, and toffuckher.1647–80.Rochester, ‘Written under Nelly’s Picture.’ Her fatherfuckedthem right together.1683.Earl of Dorset, ‘A Faithful Catalogue.’ From St. James’s to the Land of Thule, There’s not a whore whof——sso like a mule.c.1716–1746.Robertsonof Struan,Poems, 256. But she gave proof that she couldf——k, Or she is damnably bely’d.1728.Bailey,English Dict., s.v.Fuck…Feminam subigitare.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue.F——k, to copulate.c.1790(?).Burns,Merry Muses. And yet misca’s a poor thing Thatfucksfor its bread.Fuckable,adj.(venery).—Desirable. AlsoFucksome.Fucker,subs.(common).—1. A lover; afancy joseph(q.v.).2. (common).—A term of endearment, admiration, derision, etc.Fuck-finger,subs. phr.(venery).—A fricatrix.Fuck-fist,subs. phr.(venery).—Afrigster(q.v.); a masturbator. For synonyms,seeMilkman.Fuck-hole,subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.Fucking,subs.(venery).—Generic for the ‘act of kind.’1568.Scott,Bannatyne MSS., Hunterian Soc. Publication, p. 363. ‘To the Derisioun of Wantoun Wemen.’ Thir foure, the suth to sane, Enforsis thame tofucking… Quod Scott.[81]1575.Satirical Poems, etc., Scottish Text Soc. Pub. (1889–90) i., 208. ‘A Lewd Ballat.’ To se forett the holy frere hisfukkingso deplore.Adj.(common).—A qualification of extreme contumely.Adv.(common).—Intensitive and expletive; a more violent form ofbloody(q.v.).SeeFoutering.Fuckish,adj.(venery).—Wanton;proud(q.v.); inclined for coition.Fuckster,subs.(venery).—A goodperformer(q.v.); one specially addicted to the act. Awoman-fucker(Florio), but in femininefuckstress.Fud,subs.(venery).—The pubic hair. For synonyms,seeFleece. Also the tail of a hare or rabbit.1785.Burns,The Jolly Beggars. They scarcely left to co’er theirfuds.Fuddle,subs.(common).—1. Drink. [Wedgwood: A corruption offuzz.]1621.Burton,Anatomy of Melancholy. The university troop dined with the Earl of Abingdon and came back wellfuzzed.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v.fuddle, Drink. ‘This is rumfuddle,c.this is excellent Tipple.’1705.Ward,Hudibras Redivivus, I., Pt. iv., p. 18. And so, said I, we sipp’d ourfuddle, As women in the straw do caudle, ’Till every man had drown’d his noddle.1733.Bailey,Erasmus, p. 125 (ed. 1877). Don’t go away; they have had their dose offuddle.2. (common).—A drunken bout; adrunk.1864.Glasgow Citizen, 9 Dec. Turner is given to afuddleat times.Verb.(colloquial).—To be drunk.1720.Durfey,Pills, etc., vi., 265. All day he willfuddle.1754.B. Martin,Eng. Dict.(2nd ed.). Tofuddle. 1. To make a person drunk. 2. To grow drunk.1770.Foote.Lame Lover, iii. Come, Hob or Nob, Master Circuit—let us try if we can’tfuddlethe serjeant.1855.Thackeray,Newcomes, ch. x. He boxed the watch; hefuddledhimself at taverns; he was no better than a Mohock.1889.Echo, 15 Feb. If rich, you mayfuddlewith Bacchus all night, And be borne to your chamber remarkably tight.Fuddlecap(orFuddler),subs.(common).—A drunkard; a boon companion. For synonyms,seeLushington.1607.Dekker,Jests to make you Merie, in wks. (Grosart) ii., 299. And your perfectfuddlecap[is known] by his red nose.d.1682.T. Browne,Works, iii., 93. True Protestantfuddlecaps.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew,fuddlecap, a drunkard.1748.T. Dyche,Dictionary(5th ed.)Fuddlecap(S.) one that loves tippling, an excessive drinker, or drunkard.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.Fuddled,adj.(colloquial).—Stupid with drink. For synonyms,seeDrinksandScrewed.1661.Pepys,Diary, 8 March After dinner, to drink all the afternoon … at last come in Sir William Wale, almostfuddled.1713.Guardian, No. 145. It was my misfortune to call in at Tom’s last night, a littlefuddled.1730.Thomson,Autumn, 537. The table floating round, And pavement faithless to thefuddledfoot.1838.Dickens,Nich. Nickleby, ch. lx., p. 485. You’re a littlefuddledto-night,[82]and may not be able to see this as clearly as you would at another time.1841.Punch, I., p. 74. The Sultan got veryfuddledlast night with forbidden juice in the harem, and tumbled down the ivory steps.1864.Glasgow Citizen, 19 Nov. No other word has so many equivalents as ‘drunk.’… One very common and old one has escaped Mr. Hotten—fuddled.1888.Daily News, 28 Nov. Music halls would soon decrease in numbers if drink were not sold in them, for sober people would not go to see spectacles only attractive to those who were halffuddled.Fudge,subs.(colloquial).—Nonsense; humbug; an exaggeration; a falsehood. [Provincial French,fuche,feuche; an exclamation of contempt from Low Ger.futsch= begone;see, however, quots. 1700 and 1712.] Also as an exclamation of contempt.1700.Isaac Disraeli,Notes on the Navy. There was, in our time, one Captain Fudge, a commander of a merchant-man; who, upon his return from a voyage, always brought home a good cargo of lies; insomuch that now, aboard ship, the sailors, when they hear a great lie, cry outfudge.1712.W. Crouch,A Collection of Papers. In the year 1664 we were sentenced for banishment to Jamaica by Judges Hyde and Twisden, and our number was 55. We were put on board the ship Black Eagle; the master’s name wasFudge, by some calledLying Fudge.1766.Goldsmith,Vicar of Wakefield, ch. xi. Who … would cry outfudge!an expression which displeased us all, and, in some measure, damped the rising spirit of the conversation.1841.Lytton,Night and Morning, Bk. II., ch. vii. Very genteel young man—prepossessing appearance—(that’s afudge!)—highly educated; usher in a school—eh?1850.Thackeray,Rebecca and Rowena, ch. i. Her ladyship’s proposition was what is called bosh … orfudgein plain Saxon.1861.Cornhill Magazine, iv., 102. ‘A Cumberland Mare’s Nest.’ … Up jumped the worthy magistrate, And seizing ‘Burn,’ Of justices the oracle and badge, he straight Descended to his ‘lion’s den’ (asobriquetinfudgemeant) Where he, ‘a second Daniel,’ had often ‘come to judgment.’1864.Tangled Talk, p. 108. It isfudgeto tell a child to ‘love’ every living creature—a tapeworm, for instance, such as is bottled up in chemists windows.1865.Morning Star, 1 June. Old as I am and halfwoorout, I wouldlay(too bad, Mr. Henley, this) upon my back and hallofudge!1882.Daily Telegraph, 5 Oct., p. 2, col. 2. Much that we hear concerning the ways and means of the working classes is sheerfudge.Verb.(colloquial).—1. To fabricate; to interpolate; to contrive without proper materials.1776.Foote,The Bankrupt, iii., 2. That last ‘suppose’ isfudgedin.1836.Marryat,Midshipman Easy, ch. xviii. By the time that he did know something about navigation, he discovered that his antagonist knew nothing. Before they arrived at Malta, Jack couldfudgea day’s work.1858.Shirley Brooks,Gordian Knot. Robert Spencer was hiding from his creditors, orfudgingmedical certificates.1859.G. A. Sala, inJohn Bull, 21 May. I had provided myself with a good library of books of Russian travel, and sofudgedmyJourney Due North.2. (schoolboys’).—To copy; to crib; to dodge or escape.1877.Blanch,The Blue Coat Boysp. 97.Fudge,verb.,trans.andintrans.To prompt a fellow in class, or prompt oneself in class artificially. Thence to tell;e.g., ‘fudgeme what the time is.’3. (common).—To botch; to bungle; tomuff(q.v.)4. (schoolboys’).—To advance the hand unfairly at marbles.[83]Fug,verb.(Shrewsbury School).—To stay in a stuffy room.Fugel,verb. (venery).—To possess;to have(q.v.).1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., i., 126. Whofugelledthe Parson’s fine Maid.Fuggy,subs.(schoolboys’).—A hot roll.Adj. (Shrewsbury School).—Stuffy.Fugo,subs.(obsolete).—The rectum, or (Cotgrave) ‘bung-hole.’1720.Durfey,Pills, etc., vi., 247. This maid, she like a beast turned herfugoto the East.FulhamsorFullams,subs.(old).—Loaded dice; called ‘high’ or ‘low’fulhamsas they were intended to turn up high or low.Cf.,gourd. [Conjecturally, because manufactured at Fulham, or because that village was a notorious resort of blacklegs.] For synonyms,seeUphills.1594.Nashe,Unf. Traveller, in wks. v., 27. The dice of late are growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper alike, langrets,fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them will not affoord a man his dinner.1596.Shakspeare,Merry Wives of Windsor, i., 3. Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd, andfullamholds, Andhighandlowbeguile the rich and poor.1599.Jonson,Every Man out of His Hum., iii., 1.Car.: Who! he serve? ’sblood, he keeps high men, and low men, he! he has—fair living at Fullam. [Whalley’s note in Gifford’sJonson,The dice were loaded to run high or low; hence they were calledhigh menorlow men, and sometimes high and lowfullams. Calledfullamseither because F. was the resort of sharpers, or because they were chiefly made there.]1664.Butler,Hudibras, Part II., C. i., 1. 642. But I do wonder you should chuse This way t’ attack me with your muse, As one cut out to pass your tricks on, Withfulhamsof poetic fiction. [Note in Dr. Nash’s Ed., vol. I., p. 272 (Ed. 1835). ‘That is, with cheats or impositions.Fulhamwas a cant word for a false die, many of them being made at that place.’]1822.Scott,Fortunes of Nigel, ch. xxiii. Men talk of high and low dice,Fulhamsand bristles … and a hundred ways of rooking besides.2. (colloquial).—A sham; amake-believe(q.v.). [From sense 1.]1664.Butler,Hudibras, ii., 1,Fulhamsof poetic fiction.Fulham Virgin,subs. phr.(colloquial).—A fast woman.Cf.,Bankside lady;Covent Garden nun;St. John’s Wood vestal, etc.Fulk,verb(old schoolboys’).—To use an unfair motion of the hand in plumping at taw.—Grose.Fulke,verb(venery).—To copulate. [A euphemism suggested by Byron inDon Juan, the first and last words of which, so adepts tell you, are ‘I’ and ‘fulke.’]Fulker,subs.(old).—A pawnbroker. For synonyms,seeUncle.1566.Gascoigne,Supposes, ii., 3. TheFulkerwill not lend you a farthing upon it.Full,adj.(colloquial).—1. Drunk. For synonyms,seeDrinksandScrewed.1888.Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. When he wasfullthe police came and jugged.2. (turf). Used by bookmakers to signify that they have laid all the money they wish against a particular horse.Full-guts,subs. phr.(common).—A swag-bellied man or woman.[84]A Full hand,subs. phr.(American waiters’). Five large beers. For analogous expressions,seeGo.Full in the belly,subs. phr.(colloquial).—With child.Full in the pasterns(orthe hocks),subs. phr.(colloquial).—Thick-ankled.Full team,subs. phr.(American).—An eulogium. A man is afull teamwhen of consequence in the community. Variants arewhole team, orwhole team and a horse to spare.Cf.one-horse= mean, insignificant, or strikingly small.Full in the waistcoat,adj. phr.(colloquial).—Swag-bellied.Full of ’em,adj. phr.(common).—Lousy; nitty; full of fleas.Full to the bung,adj. phr.(colloquial).—Very drunk. For synonyms,seeDrinksandScrewed.To have(orwear)a full suit of mourning,verb. phr.(pugilists’).—To have two black eyes.Half-mourning= one black eye. For synonyms,seeMouse.To come full bob,verb. phr.(old colloquial).—To come suddenly; to come full tilt.1672.Marvell,Rehearsal Transposed(in Grosart, iii., 414). The page and you meetfull bob.Full against,adv. phr.1. Dead, or decidedly opposed to, a person, thing, or place.Full-bottomed(or-breeched, or-pooped),adv. phr.(colloquial).—Broad in the hind;barge-arsed(q.v.)Full-flavoured,adv. phr.(colloquial).—Peculiarly rank: as a story, an exhibition of profane swearing, an emission of wind, etc.Full-fledged,adv. phr.(venery).—Ripe for defloration.Full-gutted,adv. phr.(colloquial).—Stout; swag-bellied.Full of emptiness,adv. phr.(common).—Utterly void.Full on,adv. phr.(colloquial).—Set strongly in a given direction, especially in an obscene sense:e.g.,full on for itorfull on for one= ready and willingau possible.At full chisel,adv. phr.(American).—At full speed; with the greatest violence or impetuousity. Alsofull drive;full split.Cf.hickety split;ripping;staving along;two-thirty, etc.In full blast,swing, etc.,adv. phr.(colloquial).—In the height of success; in hot pursuit.1859.Sala,Twice Round the Clock, 5 a.m., Part I. At five a.m. the publication of theTimesnewspaper is, to use a north-country mining expression, in ‘full blast.’1884.Daily News, Feb. 9, p. 5, col. 2. If he visit New York in that most pleasant season, the autumn, he will find that the ‘fall’ trade is ‘infull blast.’1888.Daily Telegraph, 17 Nov. By half-past ten o’clock the smoking-room wasin full swing.In full dig,adv. phr.(common).—On full pay.[85]In full feather,seeFeather.In full fig.—1.SeeFig(to which may be added the following illustrative quotations).1836.M. Scott,Cruise of the Midge, p. 178. In front of this shed—full fig, in regular Highland costume, philabeg, short hose, green coatee, bonnet and feather, marched the bagpiper.1836.M. Scott,Cringle’s Log, ch. xi. Captain Transom, the other lieutenant, and myself in full puff, leading the van, followed by about fourteen seamen.1838.Haliburton,Clockmaker, (2nd ed.), ch. viii. ‘Lookin’ as pleased as a peacock when it’sin full figwith its head and tail up.’1841.Punch, i., p. 26, col. 1. Dressedin full fig—sword very troublesome—getting continually between my legs.1874.Mrs. H. Wood,Johnny Ludlow(1st ed.), No. IV., p. 62. When our church bells were going for service, Major Parrifer’s carriage turned out with the ladies allin full fig.2.adv. phr.(venery).—Said of an erection of thepenis;prick-proud(q.v.). For synonyms,seeHorn.Like a straw-yard bull: full of fuck and half starved,phr.(venery). A friendly retort to the question, ‘How goes it?’i.e., How are you?Full of it,phr.(common).—With child.Full of guts,phr.(colloquial).—Full of vigour; excellently inspired and done: as a picture, a novel, and so forth.SeeGuts.Full of beans,seeBeans.Full of bread,seeBread.Fuller’s Earth,subs. phr.(old).—Gin. For synonyms,seeSatin.1821.Real Life in London, i., 394. The swell covies and out-and-outers find nothing so refreshing, after a night’s spree, when the victualling office is out of order, as a littlefuller’s earth, or dose of Daffy’s.1823.Moncrieff,Tom and Jerry, iii., 3. Bring me de kwarten of defuller’s earth.Fullied.To be fullied,verb. phr.(thieves’).—To be committed for trial. [From the newspaper expression, ‘Fully committed.’] Fr.,être mis sur la planche au pain.1851–61.H. Mayhew,London Lab. and Lon. Poor, Vol. iii., p. 397. He got acquitted for that there note after he had me ‘pinched’ (arrested). I gotfullied(fully committed).1879.Horsley, ‘Autobiography of a Thief,’ inMacmillan’s Magazine, xl., 506. I … was thenfulliedand got this stretch and a half.1889.Answers, 13 April, p. 313. At the House of Detention I often noticed such announcements as ‘Jack from Bradfordfulliedfor smashing, and expects seven stretch,’i.e., fully committed for trial for passing bad money, and expects seven years’ penal servitude.Fulness.There’s not fulness enough in the sleeve top.phr.(tailors’).—A derisive answer to a threat.Fumbler,subs.(old).—An impotent man.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Fumbler, c., an unperforming husband; one that is insufficient; a weak Brother.1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., vi., 312. The oldfumbler(title).1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.c.1790.Burns, ‘David and Bathsheba,’ p. 40. ‘By Jove,’ says she, ‘what’s this I see, my Lord the King’s afumbler.’Fumbler’s Hall,subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum.See, however, quot. 1690. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.[86]1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Fumbler’s hall, the place where such (fumblers,q.v.) are to be put for their non-performance.Free of Fumbler’s hall,phr.—Said of an impotent man.Fumbles,subs.(thieves’).—Gloves.1825.Kent,Modern Flash Dict.,s.v.1859.Matsell,Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon,s.v.1881.New York Slang Dict., s.v.Fun,subs.(old).—1. A cheat; a trick.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew,s.v.
1611.Middleton,Roaring Girl, Act iii., Sc. 3.S. Alex.Then he’s a graduate.S. Davy.Say they trust him not.S. Alex.Then is he held afreshmanand a sot.1767.Colman,Oxonian in Town, ii., 3. And now I find you as dull and melancholy as afreshmanat college after a jobation.1841.Lever,Charles O’Malley, ch. xiv. ‘This is his third year,’ said the Doctor, ‘and he is only afreshman, having lost every examination.’1891.Sporting Life, 20 Mar. The mile, bar accidents, will be a gift to B. C. Allen, of Corpus, who has more than maintained the reputation he gained as afresher.Adj.(University).—Of, or pertaining to, afreshman, or a first year student.Freshmanship,subs.(old).—Of the quality or state of being a freshman.1605.Jonson,Volpone, or the Fox, iv., 3. Well, wise Sir Pol., since you have practised thus, Upon myfreshmanship, I’ll try your salt-head With what proof it is against a counter-plot.Freshman’s Bible,subs. phr.(University).—The University Calendar.Freshman’s Church,subs. phr.(University).—The Pitt Press at Cambridge. [From its ecclesiastical architecture.]Freshman’s Landmark,subs. phr.(University).—King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. [From the situation.]Freshwater Mariner(orSeaman),subs. phr.(old).—A beggar shamming sailor; aturnpike sailor(q.v.).1567.Harman,Caveat(1869), p. 48.Thesefreshwater mariners, their shipes were drowned in the playne of Salisbury. These kynde … counterfet great losses on the sea.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Freshwater seamen, that have never been on the Salt, or made any Voyage, meer Land-Men.Freshwater Soldier,subs. phr.(old).—A raw recruit.1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes, Biancone. A goodly, great milke-soppe, afresh water soldier.1603.Knolles,Hist. of the Turkes. The nobility, asfreshwater soldiers, which had never seen but some slight skirmishes, made light account of the Turks.1696.Nomenclator.Bachelier aux armes, nouveau ou jeune soudard. Afreshwater souldier: a young souldier: a novice: one that is trayned up to serve in the field.[73]Fret,To fret one’s gizzard,guts,giblets,kidneys,cream, etc.,verb. phr.(common).—To get harassed and worried about trifles;to tear one’s shirt(q.v.).Friar,subs.(printers’).—A pale spot in a printed sheet. Fr.,un moine(= monk).Frib,subs.(old).—A stick. For synonyms,seeToko.1754.Discoveries of John Poulter, p. 43. A Jacob andfrib; a ladder and stick.Fribble,subs.(old).—A trifler; a contemptible fop. [From the character in Garrick’sMiss in her Teens(1747)].1785.Grose,Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.1860.Thackeray,Four Georges. George IV.Thatfribble, the leader of such men as Fox and Burke!Friday-face,subs.(old).—A gloomy, dejected-looking man or woman. [Probably from Friday being, ecclesiastically, the banyan day of the week.] Fr.,figure de carême.1592.Greene,Groatsworth of Wit, in wks. xii., 120. The Foxe made aFriday-face, counterfeiting sorrow.1785.Grose,Dict. of the Vulg. Tongue, s.v.1889.Gentleman’s Mag., June, p. 593.Friday-faceis a term still occasionally applied to a sour-visaged person; it was formerly in very common use.Friday-faced,adj.(old).—Mortified; melancholy; ‘sour-featured’ (Scott).1592.John Day,Blind Beggar, Act iii., Sc. 2, p. 57.Can.No, youFriday-fac’dfrying-pan, it was to save us all from whipping or a worse shame.1606.Wily Beguiled(HawkinsEng. Dr., iii., 356). Marry, out upon him! What aFriday-fac’dslave it is! I think in my conscience his face never keeps holiday.Friend(orLittle Friend),subs.—The menstrual flux ordomestic afflictions(q.v.), whose appearance is sometimes announced by the formula ‘My little friend has come.’ Conventionalisms are queer; poorly; changes (Irish); ‘the Captain’s at home’ (Grose).SeeFlag.To go and see a sick friend,verb. phr.(venery).—To go on the loose.SeeGreens.Friend Charles.SeeCharles his friend.Friendly Lead,subs. phr.(thieves’).—An entertainment (as a sing-song) got up to assist a companion introuble(q.v.), or to raise money for the wife and children of a ‘quodded pal.’1871.Daily Telegraph, 4 Dec. This was the secret business, the tremendous conspiracy, to compass which it was deemed necessary to act with infinitely more caution than the friends of Bill Sikes feel called on to exercise when they distribute tickets for afriendly leadfor the benefit of Bill, who is ‘just out of his trouble.’1889.Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 5 Jan. The men frequently club together in afriendly leadto help a brother in distress.1892.Ally Sloper, 2 Apr., p. 106, col. 3. My father takes the chair atfriendly leads.Friends in Need,subs. phr.(common).—Lice. For synonyms,seeChates.Frig,verb trans. and refl.(venery).—To masturbate. Alsosubs.= an act of masturbation. Known sometimes askeeping down the census. [Latin,fricare= to rub.]English Synonyms.—To bob; to box the Jesuit [‘St. Omer’s lewdness,’ Marston,[74]‘Scourge’ (1598)]; to chuff; to chuffer; to claw (Florio); to digitate (of women); to eat (or get) cock-roaches; to bring up (or off) by hand; to fight one’s turkey (Texan); to finger or finger-fuck (of women); to friggle (Florio); to fuck one’s fist (of men); to fetch mettle (Grose); to handle; to indorse; to jerk, play, pump, toss, or work off; to lark; to milk; to mount a corporal and four; to mess, or pull about; to play with (schoolboys’), to rub up; to shag; to tickle one’s crack (of women); to dash one’s doodle; to touch up; to play paw-paw tricks (Grose); to wriggle (old). For foreign synonyms,seeWriggle.1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes.Fricciare… tofrig, to wriggle, to tickle.1611.Cotgrave,Dictionarie.Branler la pique,To Frig.1728.Bailey,Dict., s.v.Frig, to rub.c.1716–1746.Robertsonof Struan.Poems, 83. So to a House of office … a School-Boy does repair, To … fr—— his P—— there.1785.Grose,Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.Frigate,subs.(common).—A woman.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Friggatwell rigg’d, a woman well drest and gentile.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue. A well-rigg’dfrigate, a well-dressed wench.Frigging,subs.(venery).—1. The act of masturbation; the ‘cynick friction’ (Marston,Scourge); otherwisesimple infanticide.2. (old).—Trifling [Grose, 1785.]Adj. and adv.(vulgar).—An expletive of intensification. Thus,frigging bad= ‘bloody’ bad; afrigging idiot= an absolute fool.SeealsoFouteringandFucking.Frightfully,adv.(colloquial).—Very. An expletive used as areawfully,beastly,bloody, etc. (q.v.).Frig-pig,subs.(old).—A finnicking trifler.1785.Grose,Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v.1811.Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.Frigster(in fem.Frigstress)subs.(venery).—A masturbator; anindorser(q.v., also = a Sodomite).Frillery,subs.(common).—Feminine underclothing. For synonyms,seeSnowy.To explore one’s frillery(venery) = to grope one’s person.Frills,subs.(American).—Swagger; conceit; also accomplishments (as music, languages, etc.); and culture;cf.,Man with no frills.1870.Sacramento Paper(quoted inDe Vere). ‘I can’t bear his talk, it’s allfrills.’1884.Clemens(‘Mark Twain’),Adventures of HuckFinn.33. I never see such a son. I bet I’ll take some of thesefrillsout of you before I’m done with you.To put on one’s frills,verb. phr.(American).—To exaggerate;to chant the poker; to swagger; to put onside(q.v.); tosing it(q.v.). Fr.,se gonfler le jabot, andfaire son lard.1890.Rudyard Kipling,National Observer, March, 1890, p. 69. ‘The Oont.’ It’s the commissariat camelputting on his blooming frills.[75]2. (venery).—To get wanton orprick-proud(q.v.); in a state ofmust(q.v.).To have been among one’s frills,verb. phr.(venery).—To have enjoyed the sexual favour. For synonyms,seeGreens.Frint,subs.(old).—A pawnbroker. For synonyms,seeUncle.1821.Real Life in London, i., p. 566.Frisco,subs.(American).—Short for San Francisco.1870.Bret Harte,Poems, ‘Chiquita.’ Busted hisself at White Pine, and blew out his brains down inFrisco.1890.Sporting Life, 8 Nov. The battle … took place in the theatre, Market St.,Frisco.Frisk,subs.(old).—1. A frolic; an outing; alark(q.v.); mischief generally.1697.Vanbrugh,Provoked Wife, iii., 1. If you have a mind to take afriskwith us, I have an interest with my lord; I can easily introduce you.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.1825.The English Spy, vi., p. 162. Dick’s atrumpand notelegraph—up to everyfrisk, and down to everymoveof the domini, thoroughbred and nowant of courage.1852.Dickens,Bleak House, ch. xx., p. 171. ‘When you and I had thefriskdown in Lincolnshire, Guppy, and drove over toseethat house at Castle Wold.’2. (old).—A dance.1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., i., 274. Let’s have a neatfriskor so, And then rub on the law.1782.Cowper,Table Talk, 237. Give him his lass, his fiddle, and hisfrisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may.1880.Ouida,Moths, ch. xiv. And her fancy-dressfrisks, and her musical breakfasts, were great successes.3. (venery).—The act of copulation.SeeGreensandRide.Verb(thieves’).—1. To search;to run the rule over(q.v.); Especially applied to the search made, after arrest, for evidence of character, antecedents, or identity. Hence, careful examination of any kind.1781.Geo.Parker,Life’s Painter, p. 179. Theyfriskhim? That is search him.Ibid., p. 122.Puttinga lap-feeder in our sack, that you or your blowen had prig’d yourselves though we should stand thefriskfor it.1828.Jon. Bee,Pict. of London. p. 69. The arms are seized from behind by one, whilst the otherfrisksthe pockets of their contents.1852.Judson,Mysteries, etc.,of New York, ch. vii. Vel sare, the offisare ’avefriskme: he ’ave not found ze skin or ze dummy, eh?1859.Matsell,Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, p. 21. ‘The knuck was copped to rights, a skin full of honey was found in his kick’s poke by the copper when hefriskedhim’; [i.e.] the pickpocket was arrested, and when searched by the officer a purse was found in his pantaloons pocket full of money.2. (thieves’).—To pick pockets; to rob.To frisk a cly= to empty a pocket.1852.Judson,Mysteries, etc. of New York, ch. iv. You’re as good a knuck as everfriskeda swell.1883.Daily Telegraph, 13 June, p. 7, col. 3. The ragged little wretches who prowl in gangs about the suburbs, who crawl on their hands and knees into shops in order to ‘friskthe till.’3. (venery).—To ‘have(q.v.) a woman.’ For synonyms,seeRide.To dance the Paddington frisk,verb. phr.(old).—To dance on nothing;i.e., to be hanged. [Tyburn Tree was in Paddington.] For synonyms,seeLadder.[76]Frisker,subs.(old).—A dancer.1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., ii., 20. At no Whitsun Ale there e’er yet had been Such Fraysters andFriskersas these lads and lasses.FrivolorFrivvle,verb.(colloquial).—To act frivolously; to trifle. [A resuscitation of an old word used in another sense, viz., to annul, to set aside].1883.W. Black,Yolande, ch. xx. ‘Mind, I am assuming that you mean business—if you want tofrivole, and pick pretty posies, I shut my door on you but, I say, if you mean business, I have told Mrs. Bell you are to have access to my herbarium, whether I am there or not.’Frog,subs.(common).—1. A policeman. For synonyms,seeBeakandCopper.1881.New York Slang Dict., ‘On the Trail.’ I must amputate like a go-away, or thefrogswill nail me.1886.Graphic, 30 Jan., p. 130, col. 1. A policeman is also called … a ‘frog,’the last-named because he is supposed to jump, as it were, suddenly upon guilty parties.2. (common).—A Frenchman. Alsofroggyandfrog-eater. [Formerly a Parisian; the shield of whose city bore three toads, while the quaggy state of the streets gave point to a jest common at Versailles before 1791:Qu’en disent les grenouilles?i.e., What do thefrogs(the people of Paris) say?]1883.Referee, 15 July, p. 7, col. 3. While Ned from Boulogne says ‘Oui mon brave,’ The Froggies must answer for‘Tamatave.’3. (popular).—A foot. For synonyms,seeCreepers.To frog on,verb. phr.(American).—To get on; to prosperfrogging-on= success.Frog-and-Toad,subs.(rhyming).—The main road.Frog-and-Toe,subs.(American thieves’).—The city of New York.1859.Matsell,Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, p. 35. Coves, let usfrog-and-toe, coves, let us go to New York.Froglander,subs.(old).—A Dutchman.Cf.,frog, sense 2.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v.1852.Judson,Mysteries, etc.,of New York, ch. xiv. The funny swag which they raised out of thefroglandercoves.Frog-salad,subs.(American).—A ballet;i.e., aleg-piece(q.v.).Frog’s March.To give the frog’s march,verb. phr.(common).—To carry a man face downwards to the station; a device adopted with drunken or turbulent prisoners.1871.Evening Standard, ‘Clerkenwell Police Report,’ 18 April. In cross-examination the police stated that they did not give the defendant thefrog’s march. Thefrog’s marchwas described to be carrying the face downwards.1884.Daily News, Oct. 4, p. 5, col. 2. They had to resort to a mode of carrying him, familiarly known in the force, we believe, as thefrog trot, or sometimes as thefrog’s march.… The prisoner is carried with his face downwards and his arms drawn behind him.1888.Daily Telegraph, 22 Dec. Whether the ‘bobbies’ ran the tipsy man in, treating him meanwhile to a taste of thefrog’s march, and whether he was fined or imprisoned for assaulting the police, is not upon the record.1890.Bird o’ Freedom, 19 Mar., p. 1,col. 1. And then he gets thefrog’s marchto the nearest Tealeaf’s.[77]Frog’s Wine,subs. phr.(old).—Gin. For synonyms,seeDrinksandSatin.1811.Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.Frolic,subs.(common).—A merry-making.1847.Robb.Squatter Life, p. 133. At all thefrolicksround the country, Jess was hangin’ onter that gal.Frosty-face,subs.(old).—A pox-pitted man. Grose (1785).Front,verb(thieves’).—To conceal the operations of a pickpocket; tocover(q.v.).1879.J. W. HorsleyinMacmillan’s Mag., XL., 506. So my pal said, ‘Frontme (cover me), and I will do him for it.’Front-attic(or-door,-garden,-parlour,-room, or-window).subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.To have(ordo) abit of front-door work= to copulate.1823.Bee,Dict. of the Turf, s.v. Mrs. Fubb’sfront-parlour(videTom Rees) is not to be mistaken for any part of any building.Front-door Mat,subs. phr.(venery).—The female pubic hair. For synonyms,seeFleece.Front-gut,subs.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.Frontispiece,subs.(pugilists’).—The face. For synonyms,seeDial.1818.P. Egan,Boxiana, I., p. 221. Tyne put in right and left upon the Jew’sfrontispiecetwo such severe blows, that Crabbe’s countenance underwent a trifling change.1845.Buckstone,Green Bushes, i., 1. It’s a marcy my switch didn’t come in contract with your iligantfrontispiece.1860.Chambers’ Journal XIII., p. 368. His forehead is hisfrontispiece.1864.A. Trollope,Sm. Ho. at Allington(1884), vol. ii., ch. V., p. 47. He said that he had had an accident—or rather, a row—and that he had come out of it with considerable damage to hisfrontispiece.1891.Sporting Life, 28 Mar. It must be confessed that the ludicrous was attained when Griffiths subsequently appeared with a short black pipe in his distorted and batteredfrontispiece.Front-windows,subs.(common).—1. The eyes; also the face.2. Insing.(venery).—The femalepudendum.Cf.,front-attic; and for synonyms,seeMonosyllable.Frost,subs.(common).—A complete failure.Cf., Fr.,un four noir. Alsoun temps noir= a blank interval; a prolonged silence (as when an actor’s memory fails him).1885.Saturday Review, 15 Aug., p. 218. He is an absolute and perfectfrost.1885.Bell’s Life, 3 Jan., p. 3, col. 6. We regret we cannot write favorably concerning this matter, the affair being almost as big afrostathletically as it was financially.1889.Star, 17 Jan. The pantomime was a deadfrost.2. (common).—A dearth of work;to have a frost= to be idle.Froudacious,Froudacity,adj.andsubs.Seequots.1888.Colonies and India, 14 Nov. The word ‘Froudacity,’ invented by Mr. Darnell Davis in his able review ofThe Bow of Ulysses, recently published, has reached the height of popularity in theAustralasianColonies, where it has come into everyday use. In the Melbourne Assembly the other day an hon. member observed—speaking of some remarks made by a previous speaker—that he never heard[78]suchfroudaciousstatements in his life. The colonial papers are beginning, also, to spell the word with a small ‘f,’ which is significant.1889.Graphic, 16 Feb. By exposing some of Mr. Froude’s manifold errors (the most dangerous is that which assumes the sour Waikato clays to be rich because they grow fern) he justifies the Australian adjectiveFroudacious.Froust,subs.(Harrow School).—1. Extra sleep allowed on Sunday mornings and whole holidays. Fr.,faire du lard.2. (common).—A stink; stuffiness (in a room).Frousty,adj.(common).—Stinking.Frout,adj.(Winchester College).—Angry; vexed.Frow(orFroe, orVroe),subs.(old).—A woman; a wife; a mistress. [From the Dutch.]1607.Dekker,Westward Ho, ActV., Sc. 1. Eat with ’em as hungerly as soldiers; drink as if we werefroes.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew, V. Brush to yourfroeand wheedle for crap, c. whip to your mistress and speak her fair to give or lend you some Money.1754.B. Martin,Eng. Dict.(2 ed.), s.v.1789.Parker,Life’s Painter, p. 119 A flash of lightning next Bess tipt each cull andfrow.Fruitful Vine,subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.1811.Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.Fruitful vine. A woman’s private parts,i.e., that has flowers every month, and bears fruit in nine.Frummagemed,adj.(old).—Choked; strangled; spoilt.1671.R. Head,English Rogue, Pt. I., ch. v., 49 (1874).Frummagem, Choakt.1724.E. Coles,Eng. Dict.Frummigam,c.choaked.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Choaked, strangled, or hanged. Cant.1815.Scott,Guy Mannering, ch. xxviii. ‘If I had not helped you with these very fambles (holding up her hands), Jean Baillie would havefrummagem’dyou, ye feckless do-little!’1819.Moore,Tom Crib’s Memorial, p. 21. There he lay, almostfrummagem’d.Frump,subs.(old).—1. A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a sneer; a jest.1553.Wilson,Art of Rhetorique, p. 137. (He) shall be able to abashe a right worthie man, and make him at his witte’s ende, through the sodaine quicke and vnlookedfrumpegiuen.1589.Greene,Menaphon, p. 45. For women’s paines are more pinching if they be girded with afrumpethan if they be galled with a mischiefe.1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes.Bichiacchia, jestes, toyes,frumps, flim-flam tales, etc.1606.T. Dekker,Seven Deadly Sinnes, p. 44 (ed. Arber). The courtiers gives you an open scoffe, ye clown a secret mock, the cittizen yat dwels at your threshald, a ieeryfrump.1630.Taylor,Works. But yet, me thinkes, he gives thee but afrumpe, In telling how thee kist a wenches rumpe.1662.Rump Songs, ‘Arsy-Varsy,’etc., ii., 47. As a preface of honor and not as afrump, First with a Sir reverence ushers the Rump.1668.Dryden,An Evening’s Love, Act IV. Sc. 3. Not to be behindhand with you in yourfrumps, I give you back your purse of gold.2. (common).—A slattern; more commonly a prim old lady; the correlative offogey(q.v.). Fr.,un graillon.1831.J. R. Planché,Olympic Revels, Sc. i. Cheat, you stingyfrump! Who wants to cheat?1837.Barham,Ingoldsby Legends, I., p. 157. Get into the hands of the other oldfrumps.[79]1857.Thackeray,Virginians, ch. xxxi. She is changed now, isn’t she? What an old Gorgon it is! She is a great patroness of your book-men, and when that oldfrumpwas young they actually made verses about her.3. (old).—A cheat; a trick.1602.Rowland,Greene’s Ghost, 37. They come off with their …frumps.Verb(old).—To mock; to insult.1589.Nashe,Month’s Mind, in Works, Vol. I., p. 158. One of them … maketh a iest ofPrinces, and ‘the troubling of the State, and offending of her Maiestie,’ hee turneth of with afrumpingforsooth, as though it were a toie to think of it.1593.G. Harvey,Pierces Super, in Works II., 107. That despiseth the graces of God, flowteth the constellations of heaven,frumpeththe operations of nature.1609.Man in the Moone.Hee …frumpeththose his mistresse frownes on.1757.Garrick,Irish Widow, I., i. Yes, he wasfrumped, and called me old blockhead.Frumper,subs.(old).—A sturdy man; a good blade.1825.Kent,Modern Flash Dict., s.v.Frumpish,adj.(colloquial).—Cross-grained; old-fashioned and severe in dress, manners, morals, and notions; ill-natured; given to frumps. AlsoFrumpy.1589.Greene,Tullies Love, in wks. vii., 131. Who were you but as fauourable, as you arefrumpish, would soone censure by my talke, how deepe I am reade in loues principles.1701.Farquhar,Sir Harry Wildair, Act. V., Sc. 5. She got, I don’t know how, a crotchet of jealousy in her head. This made herfrumpish, but we had ne’er an angry word.1757.Foote,Author, Act II. And methought she looked veryfrumpishand jealous.1764.O’Hara,Midas, I., 3. La! mother, why sofrumpish?1864.Dickens,Our Mutual Friend, Bk. I., ch. xi. ‘Don’t fancy me afrumpyold married woman, my dear; I was married but the other day, you know.’1889.Modern Society, 12 Oct., p.1271, col. 2. Quite an elderly and superannuated look is given to the toilette which is finished off by a woollen cloud or silken shawl, and only invalids and sixty-year-old women should be allowed suchfrumpishprivileges.Frushee,subs.(Scots’).—An open jam tart.Fry,verb(common).—To translate into plain English.Cf.,boil down.1881.Jas. Payn,Grape from a Thorn, ch. xxx. ‘I shall repose the greatest confidence in you, my dear girl, which one human being can entrust to another,’ was one of its sentences, which, when it came ‘to befried,’ meant that she should delegate to her the duties of combing Fido and cutting her canary’s claws.Go and fry your face,phr.(common).—A retort expressive of incredulity, derision, or contempt.Frying-pan.To jump from the frying-pan into the fire,verb. phr.(common).—To go from bad to worse.Cf., ‘from the smoke into the smother’ (As You Like it, i., 2.). Fr.,tomber de la poêle dans la braise.1684.Bunyan,Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II. Some, though they shun thefrying-pan, do leap into the fire.To Fry the Pewter,verb.phr.(thieves’).—To melt down pewter measures.F Sharp,subs. phr.(common).—A flea;cf., B flat.Fuant,subs.(old).—Excrement.—B. E.Dict. of the Canting Crew.Fub,verb. (old).—To cheat; to steal; to put off with false excuses. AlsoFubbery= cheating, stealing, deception.[80]1598.Shakspeare,2 Henry IV., II., 1. I have borne, and borne, and borne, and have beenfubbed off, andfubbed offfrom this day to that day.1604.Marston,Malcontent, i., 3. O no; but dream the most fantastical. O heaven!O fubbery! fubbery!1619.Fletcher,Mons. Thomas, ii., 2. My letterfubb’dtoo.1647.Cartwright,Ordinary.iv., 4. I won’t befubbed.FubseyorFubsy,adj.(old).—Plump; fat; well-filled.Fubsy dummy= a well-filled pocket book;fubsywench = a plump girl.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.1825.English Spy, I., p. 188. Old dowagers, theirfubsyfaces, Painted to eclipse the Graces.1837.Marryat,Snarley-yow, I., ch. viii. Seated on the widow’s littlefubsysofa.Fubsiness,subs.(common).—Any sort of fatness.Fuck,subs.(venery).—1. An act of coition. For synonyms,seeGreens.2. (venery).—The seminal fluid. For synonyms,seeCream.Verb.(common).—To copulate. For synonyms,seeGreensandRide.c.1540.David Lyndsay, ‘Flyting with King James.’ Ayefukkandlike ane furious fornicator.1568.Clerk,Bannatyne MSS., Hunterian Soc. Publication, p. 298. He clappit fast, he kist, he chukkit, As with the glaikkis he wer ourgane; Yit be his feiris he wald haiffukkit.1568. Anonymous,Bannatyne MSS., Hunterian Soc. Publication, p. 399. ‘In Somer when Flouris will Smell.’ Allace! said sch, my awin sweit thing, Your courtlyfukkinggaris me fling, Ye wirk sae weill.1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes, Fottere. To jape; to sarde, tofucke; to swive; to occupy.1620.Percy,Folio MSS., p. 459. [Hales and Furnivall, 1867.] A mighty mind to clipp, kisse, and toffuckher.1647–80.Rochester, ‘Written under Nelly’s Picture.’ Her fatherfuckedthem right together.1683.Earl of Dorset, ‘A Faithful Catalogue.’ From St. James’s to the Land of Thule, There’s not a whore whof——sso like a mule.c.1716–1746.Robertsonof Struan,Poems, 256. But she gave proof that she couldf——k, Or she is damnably bely’d.1728.Bailey,English Dict., s.v.Fuck…Feminam subigitare.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue.F——k, to copulate.c.1790(?).Burns,Merry Muses. And yet misca’s a poor thing Thatfucksfor its bread.Fuckable,adj.(venery).—Desirable. AlsoFucksome.Fucker,subs.(common).—1. A lover; afancy joseph(q.v.).2. (common).—A term of endearment, admiration, derision, etc.Fuck-finger,subs. phr.(venery).—A fricatrix.Fuck-fist,subs. phr.(venery).—Afrigster(q.v.); a masturbator. For synonyms,seeMilkman.Fuck-hole,subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.Fucking,subs.(venery).—Generic for the ‘act of kind.’1568.Scott,Bannatyne MSS., Hunterian Soc. Publication, p. 363. ‘To the Derisioun of Wantoun Wemen.’ Thir foure, the suth to sane, Enforsis thame tofucking… Quod Scott.[81]1575.Satirical Poems, etc., Scottish Text Soc. Pub. (1889–90) i., 208. ‘A Lewd Ballat.’ To se forett the holy frere hisfukkingso deplore.Adj.(common).—A qualification of extreme contumely.Adv.(common).—Intensitive and expletive; a more violent form ofbloody(q.v.).SeeFoutering.Fuckish,adj.(venery).—Wanton;proud(q.v.); inclined for coition.Fuckster,subs.(venery).—A goodperformer(q.v.); one specially addicted to the act. Awoman-fucker(Florio), but in femininefuckstress.Fud,subs.(venery).—The pubic hair. For synonyms,seeFleece. Also the tail of a hare or rabbit.1785.Burns,The Jolly Beggars. They scarcely left to co’er theirfuds.Fuddle,subs.(common).—1. Drink. [Wedgwood: A corruption offuzz.]1621.Burton,Anatomy of Melancholy. The university troop dined with the Earl of Abingdon and came back wellfuzzed.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v.fuddle, Drink. ‘This is rumfuddle,c.this is excellent Tipple.’1705.Ward,Hudibras Redivivus, I., Pt. iv., p. 18. And so, said I, we sipp’d ourfuddle, As women in the straw do caudle, ’Till every man had drown’d his noddle.1733.Bailey,Erasmus, p. 125 (ed. 1877). Don’t go away; they have had their dose offuddle.2. (common).—A drunken bout; adrunk.1864.Glasgow Citizen, 9 Dec. Turner is given to afuddleat times.Verb.(colloquial).—To be drunk.1720.Durfey,Pills, etc., vi., 265. All day he willfuddle.1754.B. Martin,Eng. Dict.(2nd ed.). Tofuddle. 1. To make a person drunk. 2. To grow drunk.1770.Foote.Lame Lover, iii. Come, Hob or Nob, Master Circuit—let us try if we can’tfuddlethe serjeant.1855.Thackeray,Newcomes, ch. x. He boxed the watch; hefuddledhimself at taverns; he was no better than a Mohock.1889.Echo, 15 Feb. If rich, you mayfuddlewith Bacchus all night, And be borne to your chamber remarkably tight.Fuddlecap(orFuddler),subs.(common).—A drunkard; a boon companion. For synonyms,seeLushington.1607.Dekker,Jests to make you Merie, in wks. (Grosart) ii., 299. And your perfectfuddlecap[is known] by his red nose.d.1682.T. Browne,Works, iii., 93. True Protestantfuddlecaps.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew,fuddlecap, a drunkard.1748.T. Dyche,Dictionary(5th ed.)Fuddlecap(S.) one that loves tippling, an excessive drinker, or drunkard.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.Fuddled,adj.(colloquial).—Stupid with drink. For synonyms,seeDrinksandScrewed.1661.Pepys,Diary, 8 March After dinner, to drink all the afternoon … at last come in Sir William Wale, almostfuddled.1713.Guardian, No. 145. It was my misfortune to call in at Tom’s last night, a littlefuddled.1730.Thomson,Autumn, 537. The table floating round, And pavement faithless to thefuddledfoot.1838.Dickens,Nich. Nickleby, ch. lx., p. 485. You’re a littlefuddledto-night,[82]and may not be able to see this as clearly as you would at another time.1841.Punch, I., p. 74. The Sultan got veryfuddledlast night with forbidden juice in the harem, and tumbled down the ivory steps.1864.Glasgow Citizen, 19 Nov. No other word has so many equivalents as ‘drunk.’… One very common and old one has escaped Mr. Hotten—fuddled.1888.Daily News, 28 Nov. Music halls would soon decrease in numbers if drink were not sold in them, for sober people would not go to see spectacles only attractive to those who were halffuddled.Fudge,subs.(colloquial).—Nonsense; humbug; an exaggeration; a falsehood. [Provincial French,fuche,feuche; an exclamation of contempt from Low Ger.futsch= begone;see, however, quots. 1700 and 1712.] Also as an exclamation of contempt.1700.Isaac Disraeli,Notes on the Navy. There was, in our time, one Captain Fudge, a commander of a merchant-man; who, upon his return from a voyage, always brought home a good cargo of lies; insomuch that now, aboard ship, the sailors, when they hear a great lie, cry outfudge.1712.W. Crouch,A Collection of Papers. In the year 1664 we were sentenced for banishment to Jamaica by Judges Hyde and Twisden, and our number was 55. We were put on board the ship Black Eagle; the master’s name wasFudge, by some calledLying Fudge.1766.Goldsmith,Vicar of Wakefield, ch. xi. Who … would cry outfudge!an expression which displeased us all, and, in some measure, damped the rising spirit of the conversation.1841.Lytton,Night and Morning, Bk. II., ch. vii. Very genteel young man—prepossessing appearance—(that’s afudge!)—highly educated; usher in a school—eh?1850.Thackeray,Rebecca and Rowena, ch. i. Her ladyship’s proposition was what is called bosh … orfudgein plain Saxon.1861.Cornhill Magazine, iv., 102. ‘A Cumberland Mare’s Nest.’ … Up jumped the worthy magistrate, And seizing ‘Burn,’ Of justices the oracle and badge, he straight Descended to his ‘lion’s den’ (asobriquetinfudgemeant) Where he, ‘a second Daniel,’ had often ‘come to judgment.’1864.Tangled Talk, p. 108. It isfudgeto tell a child to ‘love’ every living creature—a tapeworm, for instance, such as is bottled up in chemists windows.1865.Morning Star, 1 June. Old as I am and halfwoorout, I wouldlay(too bad, Mr. Henley, this) upon my back and hallofudge!1882.Daily Telegraph, 5 Oct., p. 2, col. 2. Much that we hear concerning the ways and means of the working classes is sheerfudge.Verb.(colloquial).—1. To fabricate; to interpolate; to contrive without proper materials.1776.Foote,The Bankrupt, iii., 2. That last ‘suppose’ isfudgedin.1836.Marryat,Midshipman Easy, ch. xviii. By the time that he did know something about navigation, he discovered that his antagonist knew nothing. Before they arrived at Malta, Jack couldfudgea day’s work.1858.Shirley Brooks,Gordian Knot. Robert Spencer was hiding from his creditors, orfudgingmedical certificates.1859.G. A. Sala, inJohn Bull, 21 May. I had provided myself with a good library of books of Russian travel, and sofudgedmyJourney Due North.2. (schoolboys’).—To copy; to crib; to dodge or escape.1877.Blanch,The Blue Coat Boysp. 97.Fudge,verb.,trans.andintrans.To prompt a fellow in class, or prompt oneself in class artificially. Thence to tell;e.g., ‘fudgeme what the time is.’3. (common).—To botch; to bungle; tomuff(q.v.)4. (schoolboys’).—To advance the hand unfairly at marbles.[83]Fug,verb.(Shrewsbury School).—To stay in a stuffy room.Fugel,verb. (venery).—To possess;to have(q.v.).1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., i., 126. Whofugelledthe Parson’s fine Maid.Fuggy,subs.(schoolboys’).—A hot roll.Adj. (Shrewsbury School).—Stuffy.Fugo,subs.(obsolete).—The rectum, or (Cotgrave) ‘bung-hole.’1720.Durfey,Pills, etc., vi., 247. This maid, she like a beast turned herfugoto the East.FulhamsorFullams,subs.(old).—Loaded dice; called ‘high’ or ‘low’fulhamsas they were intended to turn up high or low.Cf.,gourd. [Conjecturally, because manufactured at Fulham, or because that village was a notorious resort of blacklegs.] For synonyms,seeUphills.1594.Nashe,Unf. Traveller, in wks. v., 27. The dice of late are growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper alike, langrets,fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them will not affoord a man his dinner.1596.Shakspeare,Merry Wives of Windsor, i., 3. Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd, andfullamholds, Andhighandlowbeguile the rich and poor.1599.Jonson,Every Man out of His Hum., iii., 1.Car.: Who! he serve? ’sblood, he keeps high men, and low men, he! he has—fair living at Fullam. [Whalley’s note in Gifford’sJonson,The dice were loaded to run high or low; hence they were calledhigh menorlow men, and sometimes high and lowfullams. Calledfullamseither because F. was the resort of sharpers, or because they were chiefly made there.]1664.Butler,Hudibras, Part II., C. i., 1. 642. But I do wonder you should chuse This way t’ attack me with your muse, As one cut out to pass your tricks on, Withfulhamsof poetic fiction. [Note in Dr. Nash’s Ed., vol. I., p. 272 (Ed. 1835). ‘That is, with cheats or impositions.Fulhamwas a cant word for a false die, many of them being made at that place.’]1822.Scott,Fortunes of Nigel, ch. xxiii. Men talk of high and low dice,Fulhamsand bristles … and a hundred ways of rooking besides.2. (colloquial).—A sham; amake-believe(q.v.). [From sense 1.]1664.Butler,Hudibras, ii., 1,Fulhamsof poetic fiction.Fulham Virgin,subs. phr.(colloquial).—A fast woman.Cf.,Bankside lady;Covent Garden nun;St. John’s Wood vestal, etc.Fulk,verb(old schoolboys’).—To use an unfair motion of the hand in plumping at taw.—Grose.Fulke,verb(venery).—To copulate. [A euphemism suggested by Byron inDon Juan, the first and last words of which, so adepts tell you, are ‘I’ and ‘fulke.’]Fulker,subs.(old).—A pawnbroker. For synonyms,seeUncle.1566.Gascoigne,Supposes, ii., 3. TheFulkerwill not lend you a farthing upon it.Full,adj.(colloquial).—1. Drunk. For synonyms,seeDrinksandScrewed.1888.Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. When he wasfullthe police came and jugged.2. (turf). Used by bookmakers to signify that they have laid all the money they wish against a particular horse.Full-guts,subs. phr.(common).—A swag-bellied man or woman.[84]A Full hand,subs. phr.(American waiters’). Five large beers. For analogous expressions,seeGo.Full in the belly,subs. phr.(colloquial).—With child.Full in the pasterns(orthe hocks),subs. phr.(colloquial).—Thick-ankled.Full team,subs. phr.(American).—An eulogium. A man is afull teamwhen of consequence in the community. Variants arewhole team, orwhole team and a horse to spare.Cf.one-horse= mean, insignificant, or strikingly small.Full in the waistcoat,adj. phr.(colloquial).—Swag-bellied.Full of ’em,adj. phr.(common).—Lousy; nitty; full of fleas.Full to the bung,adj. phr.(colloquial).—Very drunk. For synonyms,seeDrinksandScrewed.To have(orwear)a full suit of mourning,verb. phr.(pugilists’).—To have two black eyes.Half-mourning= one black eye. For synonyms,seeMouse.To come full bob,verb. phr.(old colloquial).—To come suddenly; to come full tilt.1672.Marvell,Rehearsal Transposed(in Grosart, iii., 414). The page and you meetfull bob.Full against,adv. phr.1. Dead, or decidedly opposed to, a person, thing, or place.Full-bottomed(or-breeched, or-pooped),adv. phr.(colloquial).—Broad in the hind;barge-arsed(q.v.)Full-flavoured,adv. phr.(colloquial).—Peculiarly rank: as a story, an exhibition of profane swearing, an emission of wind, etc.Full-fledged,adv. phr.(venery).—Ripe for defloration.Full-gutted,adv. phr.(colloquial).—Stout; swag-bellied.Full of emptiness,adv. phr.(common).—Utterly void.Full on,adv. phr.(colloquial).—Set strongly in a given direction, especially in an obscene sense:e.g.,full on for itorfull on for one= ready and willingau possible.At full chisel,adv. phr.(American).—At full speed; with the greatest violence or impetuousity. Alsofull drive;full split.Cf.hickety split;ripping;staving along;two-thirty, etc.In full blast,swing, etc.,adv. phr.(colloquial).—In the height of success; in hot pursuit.1859.Sala,Twice Round the Clock, 5 a.m., Part I. At five a.m. the publication of theTimesnewspaper is, to use a north-country mining expression, in ‘full blast.’1884.Daily News, Feb. 9, p. 5, col. 2. If he visit New York in that most pleasant season, the autumn, he will find that the ‘fall’ trade is ‘infull blast.’1888.Daily Telegraph, 17 Nov. By half-past ten o’clock the smoking-room wasin full swing.In full dig,adv. phr.(common).—On full pay.[85]In full feather,seeFeather.In full fig.—1.SeeFig(to which may be added the following illustrative quotations).1836.M. Scott,Cruise of the Midge, p. 178. In front of this shed—full fig, in regular Highland costume, philabeg, short hose, green coatee, bonnet and feather, marched the bagpiper.1836.M. Scott,Cringle’s Log, ch. xi. Captain Transom, the other lieutenant, and myself in full puff, leading the van, followed by about fourteen seamen.1838.Haliburton,Clockmaker, (2nd ed.), ch. viii. ‘Lookin’ as pleased as a peacock when it’sin full figwith its head and tail up.’1841.Punch, i., p. 26, col. 1. Dressedin full fig—sword very troublesome—getting continually between my legs.1874.Mrs. H. Wood,Johnny Ludlow(1st ed.), No. IV., p. 62. When our church bells were going for service, Major Parrifer’s carriage turned out with the ladies allin full fig.2.adv. phr.(venery).—Said of an erection of thepenis;prick-proud(q.v.). For synonyms,seeHorn.Like a straw-yard bull: full of fuck and half starved,phr.(venery). A friendly retort to the question, ‘How goes it?’i.e., How are you?Full of it,phr.(common).—With child.Full of guts,phr.(colloquial).—Full of vigour; excellently inspired and done: as a picture, a novel, and so forth.SeeGuts.Full of beans,seeBeans.Full of bread,seeBread.Fuller’s Earth,subs. phr.(old).—Gin. For synonyms,seeSatin.1821.Real Life in London, i., 394. The swell covies and out-and-outers find nothing so refreshing, after a night’s spree, when the victualling office is out of order, as a littlefuller’s earth, or dose of Daffy’s.1823.Moncrieff,Tom and Jerry, iii., 3. Bring me de kwarten of defuller’s earth.Fullied.To be fullied,verb. phr.(thieves’).—To be committed for trial. [From the newspaper expression, ‘Fully committed.’] Fr.,être mis sur la planche au pain.1851–61.H. Mayhew,London Lab. and Lon. Poor, Vol. iii., p. 397. He got acquitted for that there note after he had me ‘pinched’ (arrested). I gotfullied(fully committed).1879.Horsley, ‘Autobiography of a Thief,’ inMacmillan’s Magazine, xl., 506. I … was thenfulliedand got this stretch and a half.1889.Answers, 13 April, p. 313. At the House of Detention I often noticed such announcements as ‘Jack from Bradfordfulliedfor smashing, and expects seven stretch,’i.e., fully committed for trial for passing bad money, and expects seven years’ penal servitude.Fulness.There’s not fulness enough in the sleeve top.phr.(tailors’).—A derisive answer to a threat.Fumbler,subs.(old).—An impotent man.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Fumbler, c., an unperforming husband; one that is insufficient; a weak Brother.1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., vi., 312. The oldfumbler(title).1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.c.1790.Burns, ‘David and Bathsheba,’ p. 40. ‘By Jove,’ says she, ‘what’s this I see, my Lord the King’s afumbler.’Fumbler’s Hall,subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum.See, however, quot. 1690. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.[86]1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Fumbler’s hall, the place where such (fumblers,q.v.) are to be put for their non-performance.Free of Fumbler’s hall,phr.—Said of an impotent man.Fumbles,subs.(thieves’).—Gloves.1825.Kent,Modern Flash Dict.,s.v.1859.Matsell,Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon,s.v.1881.New York Slang Dict., s.v.Fun,subs.(old).—1. A cheat; a trick.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew,s.v.
1611.Middleton,Roaring Girl, Act iii., Sc. 3.S. Alex.Then he’s a graduate.S. Davy.Say they trust him not.S. Alex.Then is he held afreshmanand a sot.1767.Colman,Oxonian in Town, ii., 3. And now I find you as dull and melancholy as afreshmanat college after a jobation.1841.Lever,Charles O’Malley, ch. xiv. ‘This is his third year,’ said the Doctor, ‘and he is only afreshman, having lost every examination.’1891.Sporting Life, 20 Mar. The mile, bar accidents, will be a gift to B. C. Allen, of Corpus, who has more than maintained the reputation he gained as afresher.Adj.(University).—Of, or pertaining to, afreshman, or a first year student.Freshmanship,subs.(old).—Of the quality or state of being a freshman.1605.Jonson,Volpone, or the Fox, iv., 3. Well, wise Sir Pol., since you have practised thus, Upon myfreshmanship, I’ll try your salt-head With what proof it is against a counter-plot.Freshman’s Bible,subs. phr.(University).—The University Calendar.Freshman’s Church,subs. phr.(University).—The Pitt Press at Cambridge. [From its ecclesiastical architecture.]Freshman’s Landmark,subs. phr.(University).—King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. [From the situation.]Freshwater Mariner(orSeaman),subs. phr.(old).—A beggar shamming sailor; aturnpike sailor(q.v.).1567.Harman,Caveat(1869), p. 48.Thesefreshwater mariners, their shipes were drowned in the playne of Salisbury. These kynde … counterfet great losses on the sea.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Freshwater seamen, that have never been on the Salt, or made any Voyage, meer Land-Men.Freshwater Soldier,subs. phr.(old).—A raw recruit.1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes, Biancone. A goodly, great milke-soppe, afresh water soldier.1603.Knolles,Hist. of the Turkes. The nobility, asfreshwater soldiers, which had never seen but some slight skirmishes, made light account of the Turks.1696.Nomenclator.Bachelier aux armes, nouveau ou jeune soudard. Afreshwater souldier: a young souldier: a novice: one that is trayned up to serve in the field.[73]Fret,To fret one’s gizzard,guts,giblets,kidneys,cream, etc.,verb. phr.(common).—To get harassed and worried about trifles;to tear one’s shirt(q.v.).Friar,subs.(printers’).—A pale spot in a printed sheet. Fr.,un moine(= monk).Frib,subs.(old).—A stick. For synonyms,seeToko.1754.Discoveries of John Poulter, p. 43. A Jacob andfrib; a ladder and stick.Fribble,subs.(old).—A trifler; a contemptible fop. [From the character in Garrick’sMiss in her Teens(1747)].1785.Grose,Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.1860.Thackeray,Four Georges. George IV.Thatfribble, the leader of such men as Fox and Burke!Friday-face,subs.(old).—A gloomy, dejected-looking man or woman. [Probably from Friday being, ecclesiastically, the banyan day of the week.] Fr.,figure de carême.1592.Greene,Groatsworth of Wit, in wks. xii., 120. The Foxe made aFriday-face, counterfeiting sorrow.1785.Grose,Dict. of the Vulg. Tongue, s.v.1889.Gentleman’s Mag., June, p. 593.Friday-faceis a term still occasionally applied to a sour-visaged person; it was formerly in very common use.Friday-faced,adj.(old).—Mortified; melancholy; ‘sour-featured’ (Scott).1592.John Day,Blind Beggar, Act iii., Sc. 2, p. 57.Can.No, youFriday-fac’dfrying-pan, it was to save us all from whipping or a worse shame.1606.Wily Beguiled(HawkinsEng. Dr., iii., 356). Marry, out upon him! What aFriday-fac’dslave it is! I think in my conscience his face never keeps holiday.Friend(orLittle Friend),subs.—The menstrual flux ordomestic afflictions(q.v.), whose appearance is sometimes announced by the formula ‘My little friend has come.’ Conventionalisms are queer; poorly; changes (Irish); ‘the Captain’s at home’ (Grose).SeeFlag.To go and see a sick friend,verb. phr.(venery).—To go on the loose.SeeGreens.Friend Charles.SeeCharles his friend.Friendly Lead,subs. phr.(thieves’).—An entertainment (as a sing-song) got up to assist a companion introuble(q.v.), or to raise money for the wife and children of a ‘quodded pal.’1871.Daily Telegraph, 4 Dec. This was the secret business, the tremendous conspiracy, to compass which it was deemed necessary to act with infinitely more caution than the friends of Bill Sikes feel called on to exercise when they distribute tickets for afriendly leadfor the benefit of Bill, who is ‘just out of his trouble.’1889.Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 5 Jan. The men frequently club together in afriendly leadto help a brother in distress.1892.Ally Sloper, 2 Apr., p. 106, col. 3. My father takes the chair atfriendly leads.Friends in Need,subs. phr.(common).—Lice. For synonyms,seeChates.Frig,verb trans. and refl.(venery).—To masturbate. Alsosubs.= an act of masturbation. Known sometimes askeeping down the census. [Latin,fricare= to rub.]English Synonyms.—To bob; to box the Jesuit [‘St. Omer’s lewdness,’ Marston,[74]‘Scourge’ (1598)]; to chuff; to chuffer; to claw (Florio); to digitate (of women); to eat (or get) cock-roaches; to bring up (or off) by hand; to fight one’s turkey (Texan); to finger or finger-fuck (of women); to friggle (Florio); to fuck one’s fist (of men); to fetch mettle (Grose); to handle; to indorse; to jerk, play, pump, toss, or work off; to lark; to milk; to mount a corporal and four; to mess, or pull about; to play with (schoolboys’), to rub up; to shag; to tickle one’s crack (of women); to dash one’s doodle; to touch up; to play paw-paw tricks (Grose); to wriggle (old). For foreign synonyms,seeWriggle.1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes.Fricciare… tofrig, to wriggle, to tickle.1611.Cotgrave,Dictionarie.Branler la pique,To Frig.1728.Bailey,Dict., s.v.Frig, to rub.c.1716–1746.Robertsonof Struan.Poems, 83. So to a House of office … a School-Boy does repair, To … fr—— his P—— there.1785.Grose,Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.Frigate,subs.(common).—A woman.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Friggatwell rigg’d, a woman well drest and gentile.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue. A well-rigg’dfrigate, a well-dressed wench.Frigging,subs.(venery).—1. The act of masturbation; the ‘cynick friction’ (Marston,Scourge); otherwisesimple infanticide.2. (old).—Trifling [Grose, 1785.]Adj. and adv.(vulgar).—An expletive of intensification. Thus,frigging bad= ‘bloody’ bad; afrigging idiot= an absolute fool.SeealsoFouteringandFucking.Frightfully,adv.(colloquial).—Very. An expletive used as areawfully,beastly,bloody, etc. (q.v.).Frig-pig,subs.(old).—A finnicking trifler.1785.Grose,Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v.1811.Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.Frigster(in fem.Frigstress)subs.(venery).—A masturbator; anindorser(q.v., also = a Sodomite).Frillery,subs.(common).—Feminine underclothing. For synonyms,seeSnowy.To explore one’s frillery(venery) = to grope one’s person.Frills,subs.(American).—Swagger; conceit; also accomplishments (as music, languages, etc.); and culture;cf.,Man with no frills.1870.Sacramento Paper(quoted inDe Vere). ‘I can’t bear his talk, it’s allfrills.’1884.Clemens(‘Mark Twain’),Adventures of HuckFinn.33. I never see such a son. I bet I’ll take some of thesefrillsout of you before I’m done with you.To put on one’s frills,verb. phr.(American).—To exaggerate;to chant the poker; to swagger; to put onside(q.v.); tosing it(q.v.). Fr.,se gonfler le jabot, andfaire son lard.1890.Rudyard Kipling,National Observer, March, 1890, p. 69. ‘The Oont.’ It’s the commissariat camelputting on his blooming frills.[75]2. (venery).—To get wanton orprick-proud(q.v.); in a state ofmust(q.v.).To have been among one’s frills,verb. phr.(venery).—To have enjoyed the sexual favour. For synonyms,seeGreens.Frint,subs.(old).—A pawnbroker. For synonyms,seeUncle.1821.Real Life in London, i., p. 566.Frisco,subs.(American).—Short for San Francisco.1870.Bret Harte,Poems, ‘Chiquita.’ Busted hisself at White Pine, and blew out his brains down inFrisco.1890.Sporting Life, 8 Nov. The battle … took place in the theatre, Market St.,Frisco.Frisk,subs.(old).—1. A frolic; an outing; alark(q.v.); mischief generally.1697.Vanbrugh,Provoked Wife, iii., 1. If you have a mind to take afriskwith us, I have an interest with my lord; I can easily introduce you.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.1825.The English Spy, vi., p. 162. Dick’s atrumpand notelegraph—up to everyfrisk, and down to everymoveof the domini, thoroughbred and nowant of courage.1852.Dickens,Bleak House, ch. xx., p. 171. ‘When you and I had thefriskdown in Lincolnshire, Guppy, and drove over toseethat house at Castle Wold.’2. (old).—A dance.1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., i., 274. Let’s have a neatfriskor so, And then rub on the law.1782.Cowper,Table Talk, 237. Give him his lass, his fiddle, and hisfrisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may.1880.Ouida,Moths, ch. xiv. And her fancy-dressfrisks, and her musical breakfasts, were great successes.3. (venery).—The act of copulation.SeeGreensandRide.Verb(thieves’).—1. To search;to run the rule over(q.v.); Especially applied to the search made, after arrest, for evidence of character, antecedents, or identity. Hence, careful examination of any kind.1781.Geo.Parker,Life’s Painter, p. 179. Theyfriskhim? That is search him.Ibid., p. 122.Puttinga lap-feeder in our sack, that you or your blowen had prig’d yourselves though we should stand thefriskfor it.1828.Jon. Bee,Pict. of London. p. 69. The arms are seized from behind by one, whilst the otherfrisksthe pockets of their contents.1852.Judson,Mysteries, etc.,of New York, ch. vii. Vel sare, the offisare ’avefriskme: he ’ave not found ze skin or ze dummy, eh?1859.Matsell,Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, p. 21. ‘The knuck was copped to rights, a skin full of honey was found in his kick’s poke by the copper when hefriskedhim’; [i.e.] the pickpocket was arrested, and when searched by the officer a purse was found in his pantaloons pocket full of money.2. (thieves’).—To pick pockets; to rob.To frisk a cly= to empty a pocket.1852.Judson,Mysteries, etc. of New York, ch. iv. You’re as good a knuck as everfriskeda swell.1883.Daily Telegraph, 13 June, p. 7, col. 3. The ragged little wretches who prowl in gangs about the suburbs, who crawl on their hands and knees into shops in order to ‘friskthe till.’3. (venery).—To ‘have(q.v.) a woman.’ For synonyms,seeRide.To dance the Paddington frisk,verb. phr.(old).—To dance on nothing;i.e., to be hanged. [Tyburn Tree was in Paddington.] For synonyms,seeLadder.[76]Frisker,subs.(old).—A dancer.1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., ii., 20. At no Whitsun Ale there e’er yet had been Such Fraysters andFriskersas these lads and lasses.FrivolorFrivvle,verb.(colloquial).—To act frivolously; to trifle. [A resuscitation of an old word used in another sense, viz., to annul, to set aside].1883.W. Black,Yolande, ch. xx. ‘Mind, I am assuming that you mean business—if you want tofrivole, and pick pretty posies, I shut my door on you but, I say, if you mean business, I have told Mrs. Bell you are to have access to my herbarium, whether I am there or not.’Frog,subs.(common).—1. A policeman. For synonyms,seeBeakandCopper.1881.New York Slang Dict., ‘On the Trail.’ I must amputate like a go-away, or thefrogswill nail me.1886.Graphic, 30 Jan., p. 130, col. 1. A policeman is also called … a ‘frog,’the last-named because he is supposed to jump, as it were, suddenly upon guilty parties.2. (common).—A Frenchman. Alsofroggyandfrog-eater. [Formerly a Parisian; the shield of whose city bore three toads, while the quaggy state of the streets gave point to a jest common at Versailles before 1791:Qu’en disent les grenouilles?i.e., What do thefrogs(the people of Paris) say?]1883.Referee, 15 July, p. 7, col. 3. While Ned from Boulogne says ‘Oui mon brave,’ The Froggies must answer for‘Tamatave.’3. (popular).—A foot. For synonyms,seeCreepers.To frog on,verb. phr.(American).—To get on; to prosperfrogging-on= success.Frog-and-Toad,subs.(rhyming).—The main road.Frog-and-Toe,subs.(American thieves’).—The city of New York.1859.Matsell,Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, p. 35. Coves, let usfrog-and-toe, coves, let us go to New York.Froglander,subs.(old).—A Dutchman.Cf.,frog, sense 2.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v.1852.Judson,Mysteries, etc.,of New York, ch. xiv. The funny swag which they raised out of thefroglandercoves.Frog-salad,subs.(American).—A ballet;i.e., aleg-piece(q.v.).Frog’s March.To give the frog’s march,verb. phr.(common).—To carry a man face downwards to the station; a device adopted with drunken or turbulent prisoners.1871.Evening Standard, ‘Clerkenwell Police Report,’ 18 April. In cross-examination the police stated that they did not give the defendant thefrog’s march. Thefrog’s marchwas described to be carrying the face downwards.1884.Daily News, Oct. 4, p. 5, col. 2. They had to resort to a mode of carrying him, familiarly known in the force, we believe, as thefrog trot, or sometimes as thefrog’s march.… The prisoner is carried with his face downwards and his arms drawn behind him.1888.Daily Telegraph, 22 Dec. Whether the ‘bobbies’ ran the tipsy man in, treating him meanwhile to a taste of thefrog’s march, and whether he was fined or imprisoned for assaulting the police, is not upon the record.1890.Bird o’ Freedom, 19 Mar., p. 1,col. 1. And then he gets thefrog’s marchto the nearest Tealeaf’s.[77]Frog’s Wine,subs. phr.(old).—Gin. For synonyms,seeDrinksandSatin.1811.Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.Frolic,subs.(common).—A merry-making.1847.Robb.Squatter Life, p. 133. At all thefrolicksround the country, Jess was hangin’ onter that gal.Frosty-face,subs.(old).—A pox-pitted man. Grose (1785).Front,verb(thieves’).—To conceal the operations of a pickpocket; tocover(q.v.).1879.J. W. HorsleyinMacmillan’s Mag., XL., 506. So my pal said, ‘Frontme (cover me), and I will do him for it.’Front-attic(or-door,-garden,-parlour,-room, or-window).subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.To have(ordo) abit of front-door work= to copulate.1823.Bee,Dict. of the Turf, s.v. Mrs. Fubb’sfront-parlour(videTom Rees) is not to be mistaken for any part of any building.Front-door Mat,subs. phr.(venery).—The female pubic hair. For synonyms,seeFleece.Front-gut,subs.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.Frontispiece,subs.(pugilists’).—The face. For synonyms,seeDial.1818.P. Egan,Boxiana, I., p. 221. Tyne put in right and left upon the Jew’sfrontispiecetwo such severe blows, that Crabbe’s countenance underwent a trifling change.1845.Buckstone,Green Bushes, i., 1. It’s a marcy my switch didn’t come in contract with your iligantfrontispiece.1860.Chambers’ Journal XIII., p. 368. His forehead is hisfrontispiece.1864.A. Trollope,Sm. Ho. at Allington(1884), vol. ii., ch. V., p. 47. He said that he had had an accident—or rather, a row—and that he had come out of it with considerable damage to hisfrontispiece.1891.Sporting Life, 28 Mar. It must be confessed that the ludicrous was attained when Griffiths subsequently appeared with a short black pipe in his distorted and batteredfrontispiece.Front-windows,subs.(common).—1. The eyes; also the face.2. Insing.(venery).—The femalepudendum.Cf.,front-attic; and for synonyms,seeMonosyllable.Frost,subs.(common).—A complete failure.Cf., Fr.,un four noir. Alsoun temps noir= a blank interval; a prolonged silence (as when an actor’s memory fails him).1885.Saturday Review, 15 Aug., p. 218. He is an absolute and perfectfrost.1885.Bell’s Life, 3 Jan., p. 3, col. 6. We regret we cannot write favorably concerning this matter, the affair being almost as big afrostathletically as it was financially.1889.Star, 17 Jan. The pantomime was a deadfrost.2. (common).—A dearth of work;to have a frost= to be idle.Froudacious,Froudacity,adj.andsubs.Seequots.1888.Colonies and India, 14 Nov. The word ‘Froudacity,’ invented by Mr. Darnell Davis in his able review ofThe Bow of Ulysses, recently published, has reached the height of popularity in theAustralasianColonies, where it has come into everyday use. In the Melbourne Assembly the other day an hon. member observed—speaking of some remarks made by a previous speaker—that he never heard[78]suchfroudaciousstatements in his life. The colonial papers are beginning, also, to spell the word with a small ‘f,’ which is significant.1889.Graphic, 16 Feb. By exposing some of Mr. Froude’s manifold errors (the most dangerous is that which assumes the sour Waikato clays to be rich because they grow fern) he justifies the Australian adjectiveFroudacious.Froust,subs.(Harrow School).—1. Extra sleep allowed on Sunday mornings and whole holidays. Fr.,faire du lard.2. (common).—A stink; stuffiness (in a room).Frousty,adj.(common).—Stinking.Frout,adj.(Winchester College).—Angry; vexed.Frow(orFroe, orVroe),subs.(old).—A woman; a wife; a mistress. [From the Dutch.]1607.Dekker,Westward Ho, ActV., Sc. 1. Eat with ’em as hungerly as soldiers; drink as if we werefroes.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew, V. Brush to yourfroeand wheedle for crap, c. whip to your mistress and speak her fair to give or lend you some Money.1754.B. Martin,Eng. Dict.(2 ed.), s.v.1789.Parker,Life’s Painter, p. 119 A flash of lightning next Bess tipt each cull andfrow.Fruitful Vine,subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.1811.Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.Fruitful vine. A woman’s private parts,i.e., that has flowers every month, and bears fruit in nine.Frummagemed,adj.(old).—Choked; strangled; spoilt.1671.R. Head,English Rogue, Pt. I., ch. v., 49 (1874).Frummagem, Choakt.1724.E. Coles,Eng. Dict.Frummigam,c.choaked.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Choaked, strangled, or hanged. Cant.1815.Scott,Guy Mannering, ch. xxviii. ‘If I had not helped you with these very fambles (holding up her hands), Jean Baillie would havefrummagem’dyou, ye feckless do-little!’1819.Moore,Tom Crib’s Memorial, p. 21. There he lay, almostfrummagem’d.Frump,subs.(old).—1. A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a sneer; a jest.1553.Wilson,Art of Rhetorique, p. 137. (He) shall be able to abashe a right worthie man, and make him at his witte’s ende, through the sodaine quicke and vnlookedfrumpegiuen.1589.Greene,Menaphon, p. 45. For women’s paines are more pinching if they be girded with afrumpethan if they be galled with a mischiefe.1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes.Bichiacchia, jestes, toyes,frumps, flim-flam tales, etc.1606.T. Dekker,Seven Deadly Sinnes, p. 44 (ed. Arber). The courtiers gives you an open scoffe, ye clown a secret mock, the cittizen yat dwels at your threshald, a ieeryfrump.1630.Taylor,Works. But yet, me thinkes, he gives thee but afrumpe, In telling how thee kist a wenches rumpe.1662.Rump Songs, ‘Arsy-Varsy,’etc., ii., 47. As a preface of honor and not as afrump, First with a Sir reverence ushers the Rump.1668.Dryden,An Evening’s Love, Act IV. Sc. 3. Not to be behindhand with you in yourfrumps, I give you back your purse of gold.2. (common).—A slattern; more commonly a prim old lady; the correlative offogey(q.v.). Fr.,un graillon.1831.J. R. Planché,Olympic Revels, Sc. i. Cheat, you stingyfrump! Who wants to cheat?1837.Barham,Ingoldsby Legends, I., p. 157. Get into the hands of the other oldfrumps.[79]1857.Thackeray,Virginians, ch. xxxi. She is changed now, isn’t she? What an old Gorgon it is! She is a great patroness of your book-men, and when that oldfrumpwas young they actually made verses about her.3. (old).—A cheat; a trick.1602.Rowland,Greene’s Ghost, 37. They come off with their …frumps.Verb(old).—To mock; to insult.1589.Nashe,Month’s Mind, in Works, Vol. I., p. 158. One of them … maketh a iest ofPrinces, and ‘the troubling of the State, and offending of her Maiestie,’ hee turneth of with afrumpingforsooth, as though it were a toie to think of it.1593.G. Harvey,Pierces Super, in Works II., 107. That despiseth the graces of God, flowteth the constellations of heaven,frumpeththe operations of nature.1609.Man in the Moone.Hee …frumpeththose his mistresse frownes on.1757.Garrick,Irish Widow, I., i. Yes, he wasfrumped, and called me old blockhead.Frumper,subs.(old).—A sturdy man; a good blade.1825.Kent,Modern Flash Dict., s.v.Frumpish,adj.(colloquial).—Cross-grained; old-fashioned and severe in dress, manners, morals, and notions; ill-natured; given to frumps. AlsoFrumpy.1589.Greene,Tullies Love, in wks. vii., 131. Who were you but as fauourable, as you arefrumpish, would soone censure by my talke, how deepe I am reade in loues principles.1701.Farquhar,Sir Harry Wildair, Act. V., Sc. 5. She got, I don’t know how, a crotchet of jealousy in her head. This made herfrumpish, but we had ne’er an angry word.1757.Foote,Author, Act II. And methought she looked veryfrumpishand jealous.1764.O’Hara,Midas, I., 3. La! mother, why sofrumpish?1864.Dickens,Our Mutual Friend, Bk. I., ch. xi. ‘Don’t fancy me afrumpyold married woman, my dear; I was married but the other day, you know.’1889.Modern Society, 12 Oct., p.1271, col. 2. Quite an elderly and superannuated look is given to the toilette which is finished off by a woollen cloud or silken shawl, and only invalids and sixty-year-old women should be allowed suchfrumpishprivileges.Frushee,subs.(Scots’).—An open jam tart.Fry,verb(common).—To translate into plain English.Cf.,boil down.1881.Jas. Payn,Grape from a Thorn, ch. xxx. ‘I shall repose the greatest confidence in you, my dear girl, which one human being can entrust to another,’ was one of its sentences, which, when it came ‘to befried,’ meant that she should delegate to her the duties of combing Fido and cutting her canary’s claws.Go and fry your face,phr.(common).—A retort expressive of incredulity, derision, or contempt.Frying-pan.To jump from the frying-pan into the fire,verb. phr.(common).—To go from bad to worse.Cf., ‘from the smoke into the smother’ (As You Like it, i., 2.). Fr.,tomber de la poêle dans la braise.1684.Bunyan,Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II. Some, though they shun thefrying-pan, do leap into the fire.To Fry the Pewter,verb.phr.(thieves’).—To melt down pewter measures.F Sharp,subs. phr.(common).—A flea;cf., B flat.Fuant,subs.(old).—Excrement.—B. E.Dict. of the Canting Crew.Fub,verb. (old).—To cheat; to steal; to put off with false excuses. AlsoFubbery= cheating, stealing, deception.[80]1598.Shakspeare,2 Henry IV., II., 1. I have borne, and borne, and borne, and have beenfubbed off, andfubbed offfrom this day to that day.1604.Marston,Malcontent, i., 3. O no; but dream the most fantastical. O heaven!O fubbery! fubbery!1619.Fletcher,Mons. Thomas, ii., 2. My letterfubb’dtoo.1647.Cartwright,Ordinary.iv., 4. I won’t befubbed.FubseyorFubsy,adj.(old).—Plump; fat; well-filled.Fubsy dummy= a well-filled pocket book;fubsywench = a plump girl.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.1825.English Spy, I., p. 188. Old dowagers, theirfubsyfaces, Painted to eclipse the Graces.1837.Marryat,Snarley-yow, I., ch. viii. Seated on the widow’s littlefubsysofa.Fubsiness,subs.(common).—Any sort of fatness.Fuck,subs.(venery).—1. An act of coition. For synonyms,seeGreens.2. (venery).—The seminal fluid. For synonyms,seeCream.Verb.(common).—To copulate. For synonyms,seeGreensandRide.c.1540.David Lyndsay, ‘Flyting with King James.’ Ayefukkandlike ane furious fornicator.1568.Clerk,Bannatyne MSS., Hunterian Soc. Publication, p. 298. He clappit fast, he kist, he chukkit, As with the glaikkis he wer ourgane; Yit be his feiris he wald haiffukkit.1568. Anonymous,Bannatyne MSS., Hunterian Soc. Publication, p. 399. ‘In Somer when Flouris will Smell.’ Allace! said sch, my awin sweit thing, Your courtlyfukkinggaris me fling, Ye wirk sae weill.1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes, Fottere. To jape; to sarde, tofucke; to swive; to occupy.1620.Percy,Folio MSS., p. 459. [Hales and Furnivall, 1867.] A mighty mind to clipp, kisse, and toffuckher.1647–80.Rochester, ‘Written under Nelly’s Picture.’ Her fatherfuckedthem right together.1683.Earl of Dorset, ‘A Faithful Catalogue.’ From St. James’s to the Land of Thule, There’s not a whore whof——sso like a mule.c.1716–1746.Robertsonof Struan,Poems, 256. But she gave proof that she couldf——k, Or she is damnably bely’d.1728.Bailey,English Dict., s.v.Fuck…Feminam subigitare.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue.F——k, to copulate.c.1790(?).Burns,Merry Muses. And yet misca’s a poor thing Thatfucksfor its bread.Fuckable,adj.(venery).—Desirable. AlsoFucksome.Fucker,subs.(common).—1. A lover; afancy joseph(q.v.).2. (common).—A term of endearment, admiration, derision, etc.Fuck-finger,subs. phr.(venery).—A fricatrix.Fuck-fist,subs. phr.(venery).—Afrigster(q.v.); a masturbator. For synonyms,seeMilkman.Fuck-hole,subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.Fucking,subs.(venery).—Generic for the ‘act of kind.’1568.Scott,Bannatyne MSS., Hunterian Soc. Publication, p. 363. ‘To the Derisioun of Wantoun Wemen.’ Thir foure, the suth to sane, Enforsis thame tofucking… Quod Scott.[81]1575.Satirical Poems, etc., Scottish Text Soc. Pub. (1889–90) i., 208. ‘A Lewd Ballat.’ To se forett the holy frere hisfukkingso deplore.Adj.(common).—A qualification of extreme contumely.Adv.(common).—Intensitive and expletive; a more violent form ofbloody(q.v.).SeeFoutering.Fuckish,adj.(venery).—Wanton;proud(q.v.); inclined for coition.Fuckster,subs.(venery).—A goodperformer(q.v.); one specially addicted to the act. Awoman-fucker(Florio), but in femininefuckstress.Fud,subs.(venery).—The pubic hair. For synonyms,seeFleece. Also the tail of a hare or rabbit.1785.Burns,The Jolly Beggars. They scarcely left to co’er theirfuds.Fuddle,subs.(common).—1. Drink. [Wedgwood: A corruption offuzz.]1621.Burton,Anatomy of Melancholy. The university troop dined with the Earl of Abingdon and came back wellfuzzed.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v.fuddle, Drink. ‘This is rumfuddle,c.this is excellent Tipple.’1705.Ward,Hudibras Redivivus, I., Pt. iv., p. 18. And so, said I, we sipp’d ourfuddle, As women in the straw do caudle, ’Till every man had drown’d his noddle.1733.Bailey,Erasmus, p. 125 (ed. 1877). Don’t go away; they have had their dose offuddle.2. (common).—A drunken bout; adrunk.1864.Glasgow Citizen, 9 Dec. Turner is given to afuddleat times.Verb.(colloquial).—To be drunk.1720.Durfey,Pills, etc., vi., 265. All day he willfuddle.1754.B. Martin,Eng. Dict.(2nd ed.). Tofuddle. 1. To make a person drunk. 2. To grow drunk.1770.Foote.Lame Lover, iii. Come, Hob or Nob, Master Circuit—let us try if we can’tfuddlethe serjeant.1855.Thackeray,Newcomes, ch. x. He boxed the watch; hefuddledhimself at taverns; he was no better than a Mohock.1889.Echo, 15 Feb. If rich, you mayfuddlewith Bacchus all night, And be borne to your chamber remarkably tight.Fuddlecap(orFuddler),subs.(common).—A drunkard; a boon companion. For synonyms,seeLushington.1607.Dekker,Jests to make you Merie, in wks. (Grosart) ii., 299. And your perfectfuddlecap[is known] by his red nose.d.1682.T. Browne,Works, iii., 93. True Protestantfuddlecaps.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew,fuddlecap, a drunkard.1748.T. Dyche,Dictionary(5th ed.)Fuddlecap(S.) one that loves tippling, an excessive drinker, or drunkard.1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.Fuddled,adj.(colloquial).—Stupid with drink. For synonyms,seeDrinksandScrewed.1661.Pepys,Diary, 8 March After dinner, to drink all the afternoon … at last come in Sir William Wale, almostfuddled.1713.Guardian, No. 145. It was my misfortune to call in at Tom’s last night, a littlefuddled.1730.Thomson,Autumn, 537. The table floating round, And pavement faithless to thefuddledfoot.1838.Dickens,Nich. Nickleby, ch. lx., p. 485. You’re a littlefuddledto-night,[82]and may not be able to see this as clearly as you would at another time.1841.Punch, I., p. 74. The Sultan got veryfuddledlast night with forbidden juice in the harem, and tumbled down the ivory steps.1864.Glasgow Citizen, 19 Nov. No other word has so many equivalents as ‘drunk.’… One very common and old one has escaped Mr. Hotten—fuddled.1888.Daily News, 28 Nov. Music halls would soon decrease in numbers if drink were not sold in them, for sober people would not go to see spectacles only attractive to those who were halffuddled.Fudge,subs.(colloquial).—Nonsense; humbug; an exaggeration; a falsehood. [Provincial French,fuche,feuche; an exclamation of contempt from Low Ger.futsch= begone;see, however, quots. 1700 and 1712.] Also as an exclamation of contempt.1700.Isaac Disraeli,Notes on the Navy. There was, in our time, one Captain Fudge, a commander of a merchant-man; who, upon his return from a voyage, always brought home a good cargo of lies; insomuch that now, aboard ship, the sailors, when they hear a great lie, cry outfudge.1712.W. Crouch,A Collection of Papers. In the year 1664 we were sentenced for banishment to Jamaica by Judges Hyde and Twisden, and our number was 55. We were put on board the ship Black Eagle; the master’s name wasFudge, by some calledLying Fudge.1766.Goldsmith,Vicar of Wakefield, ch. xi. Who … would cry outfudge!an expression which displeased us all, and, in some measure, damped the rising spirit of the conversation.1841.Lytton,Night and Morning, Bk. II., ch. vii. Very genteel young man—prepossessing appearance—(that’s afudge!)—highly educated; usher in a school—eh?1850.Thackeray,Rebecca and Rowena, ch. i. Her ladyship’s proposition was what is called bosh … orfudgein plain Saxon.1861.Cornhill Magazine, iv., 102. ‘A Cumberland Mare’s Nest.’ … Up jumped the worthy magistrate, And seizing ‘Burn,’ Of justices the oracle and badge, he straight Descended to his ‘lion’s den’ (asobriquetinfudgemeant) Where he, ‘a second Daniel,’ had often ‘come to judgment.’1864.Tangled Talk, p. 108. It isfudgeto tell a child to ‘love’ every living creature—a tapeworm, for instance, such as is bottled up in chemists windows.1865.Morning Star, 1 June. Old as I am and halfwoorout, I wouldlay(too bad, Mr. Henley, this) upon my back and hallofudge!1882.Daily Telegraph, 5 Oct., p. 2, col. 2. Much that we hear concerning the ways and means of the working classes is sheerfudge.Verb.(colloquial).—1. To fabricate; to interpolate; to contrive without proper materials.1776.Foote,The Bankrupt, iii., 2. That last ‘suppose’ isfudgedin.1836.Marryat,Midshipman Easy, ch. xviii. By the time that he did know something about navigation, he discovered that his antagonist knew nothing. Before they arrived at Malta, Jack couldfudgea day’s work.1858.Shirley Brooks,Gordian Knot. Robert Spencer was hiding from his creditors, orfudgingmedical certificates.1859.G. A. Sala, inJohn Bull, 21 May. I had provided myself with a good library of books of Russian travel, and sofudgedmyJourney Due North.2. (schoolboys’).—To copy; to crib; to dodge or escape.1877.Blanch,The Blue Coat Boysp. 97.Fudge,verb.,trans.andintrans.To prompt a fellow in class, or prompt oneself in class artificially. Thence to tell;e.g., ‘fudgeme what the time is.’3. (common).—To botch; to bungle; tomuff(q.v.)4. (schoolboys’).—To advance the hand unfairly at marbles.[83]Fug,verb.(Shrewsbury School).—To stay in a stuffy room.Fugel,verb. (venery).—To possess;to have(q.v.).1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., i., 126. Whofugelledthe Parson’s fine Maid.Fuggy,subs.(schoolboys’).—A hot roll.Adj. (Shrewsbury School).—Stuffy.Fugo,subs.(obsolete).—The rectum, or (Cotgrave) ‘bung-hole.’1720.Durfey,Pills, etc., vi., 247. This maid, she like a beast turned herfugoto the East.FulhamsorFullams,subs.(old).—Loaded dice; called ‘high’ or ‘low’fulhamsas they were intended to turn up high or low.Cf.,gourd. [Conjecturally, because manufactured at Fulham, or because that village was a notorious resort of blacklegs.] For synonyms,seeUphills.1594.Nashe,Unf. Traveller, in wks. v., 27. The dice of late are growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper alike, langrets,fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them will not affoord a man his dinner.1596.Shakspeare,Merry Wives of Windsor, i., 3. Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd, andfullamholds, Andhighandlowbeguile the rich and poor.1599.Jonson,Every Man out of His Hum., iii., 1.Car.: Who! he serve? ’sblood, he keeps high men, and low men, he! he has—fair living at Fullam. [Whalley’s note in Gifford’sJonson,The dice were loaded to run high or low; hence they were calledhigh menorlow men, and sometimes high and lowfullams. Calledfullamseither because F. was the resort of sharpers, or because they were chiefly made there.]1664.Butler,Hudibras, Part II., C. i., 1. 642. But I do wonder you should chuse This way t’ attack me with your muse, As one cut out to pass your tricks on, Withfulhamsof poetic fiction. [Note in Dr. Nash’s Ed., vol. I., p. 272 (Ed. 1835). ‘That is, with cheats or impositions.Fulhamwas a cant word for a false die, many of them being made at that place.’]1822.Scott,Fortunes of Nigel, ch. xxiii. Men talk of high and low dice,Fulhamsand bristles … and a hundred ways of rooking besides.2. (colloquial).—A sham; amake-believe(q.v.). [From sense 1.]1664.Butler,Hudibras, ii., 1,Fulhamsof poetic fiction.Fulham Virgin,subs. phr.(colloquial).—A fast woman.Cf.,Bankside lady;Covent Garden nun;St. John’s Wood vestal, etc.Fulk,verb(old schoolboys’).—To use an unfair motion of the hand in plumping at taw.—Grose.Fulke,verb(venery).—To copulate. [A euphemism suggested by Byron inDon Juan, the first and last words of which, so adepts tell you, are ‘I’ and ‘fulke.’]Fulker,subs.(old).—A pawnbroker. For synonyms,seeUncle.1566.Gascoigne,Supposes, ii., 3. TheFulkerwill not lend you a farthing upon it.Full,adj.(colloquial).—1. Drunk. For synonyms,seeDrinksandScrewed.1888.Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. When he wasfullthe police came and jugged.2. (turf). Used by bookmakers to signify that they have laid all the money they wish against a particular horse.Full-guts,subs. phr.(common).—A swag-bellied man or woman.[84]A Full hand,subs. phr.(American waiters’). Five large beers. For analogous expressions,seeGo.Full in the belly,subs. phr.(colloquial).—With child.Full in the pasterns(orthe hocks),subs. phr.(colloquial).—Thick-ankled.Full team,subs. phr.(American).—An eulogium. A man is afull teamwhen of consequence in the community. Variants arewhole team, orwhole team and a horse to spare.Cf.one-horse= mean, insignificant, or strikingly small.Full in the waistcoat,adj. phr.(colloquial).—Swag-bellied.Full of ’em,adj. phr.(common).—Lousy; nitty; full of fleas.Full to the bung,adj. phr.(colloquial).—Very drunk. For synonyms,seeDrinksandScrewed.To have(orwear)a full suit of mourning,verb. phr.(pugilists’).—To have two black eyes.Half-mourning= one black eye. For synonyms,seeMouse.To come full bob,verb. phr.(old colloquial).—To come suddenly; to come full tilt.1672.Marvell,Rehearsal Transposed(in Grosart, iii., 414). The page and you meetfull bob.Full against,adv. phr.1. Dead, or decidedly opposed to, a person, thing, or place.Full-bottomed(or-breeched, or-pooped),adv. phr.(colloquial).—Broad in the hind;barge-arsed(q.v.)Full-flavoured,adv. phr.(colloquial).—Peculiarly rank: as a story, an exhibition of profane swearing, an emission of wind, etc.Full-fledged,adv. phr.(venery).—Ripe for defloration.Full-gutted,adv. phr.(colloquial).—Stout; swag-bellied.Full of emptiness,adv. phr.(common).—Utterly void.Full on,adv. phr.(colloquial).—Set strongly in a given direction, especially in an obscene sense:e.g.,full on for itorfull on for one= ready and willingau possible.At full chisel,adv. phr.(American).—At full speed; with the greatest violence or impetuousity. Alsofull drive;full split.Cf.hickety split;ripping;staving along;two-thirty, etc.In full blast,swing, etc.,adv. phr.(colloquial).—In the height of success; in hot pursuit.1859.Sala,Twice Round the Clock, 5 a.m., Part I. At five a.m. the publication of theTimesnewspaper is, to use a north-country mining expression, in ‘full blast.’1884.Daily News, Feb. 9, p. 5, col. 2. If he visit New York in that most pleasant season, the autumn, he will find that the ‘fall’ trade is ‘infull blast.’1888.Daily Telegraph, 17 Nov. By half-past ten o’clock the smoking-room wasin full swing.In full dig,adv. phr.(common).—On full pay.[85]In full feather,seeFeather.In full fig.—1.SeeFig(to which may be added the following illustrative quotations).1836.M. Scott,Cruise of the Midge, p. 178. In front of this shed—full fig, in regular Highland costume, philabeg, short hose, green coatee, bonnet and feather, marched the bagpiper.1836.M. Scott,Cringle’s Log, ch. xi. Captain Transom, the other lieutenant, and myself in full puff, leading the van, followed by about fourteen seamen.1838.Haliburton,Clockmaker, (2nd ed.), ch. viii. ‘Lookin’ as pleased as a peacock when it’sin full figwith its head and tail up.’1841.Punch, i., p. 26, col. 1. Dressedin full fig—sword very troublesome—getting continually between my legs.1874.Mrs. H. Wood,Johnny Ludlow(1st ed.), No. IV., p. 62. When our church bells were going for service, Major Parrifer’s carriage turned out with the ladies allin full fig.2.adv. phr.(venery).—Said of an erection of thepenis;prick-proud(q.v.). For synonyms,seeHorn.Like a straw-yard bull: full of fuck and half starved,phr.(venery). A friendly retort to the question, ‘How goes it?’i.e., How are you?Full of it,phr.(common).—With child.Full of guts,phr.(colloquial).—Full of vigour; excellently inspired and done: as a picture, a novel, and so forth.SeeGuts.Full of beans,seeBeans.Full of bread,seeBread.Fuller’s Earth,subs. phr.(old).—Gin. For synonyms,seeSatin.1821.Real Life in London, i., 394. The swell covies and out-and-outers find nothing so refreshing, after a night’s spree, when the victualling office is out of order, as a littlefuller’s earth, or dose of Daffy’s.1823.Moncrieff,Tom and Jerry, iii., 3. Bring me de kwarten of defuller’s earth.Fullied.To be fullied,verb. phr.(thieves’).—To be committed for trial. [From the newspaper expression, ‘Fully committed.’] Fr.,être mis sur la planche au pain.1851–61.H. Mayhew,London Lab. and Lon. Poor, Vol. iii., p. 397. He got acquitted for that there note after he had me ‘pinched’ (arrested). I gotfullied(fully committed).1879.Horsley, ‘Autobiography of a Thief,’ inMacmillan’s Magazine, xl., 506. I … was thenfulliedand got this stretch and a half.1889.Answers, 13 April, p. 313. At the House of Detention I often noticed such announcements as ‘Jack from Bradfordfulliedfor smashing, and expects seven stretch,’i.e., fully committed for trial for passing bad money, and expects seven years’ penal servitude.Fulness.There’s not fulness enough in the sleeve top.phr.(tailors’).—A derisive answer to a threat.Fumbler,subs.(old).—An impotent man.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Fumbler, c., an unperforming husband; one that is insufficient; a weak Brother.1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., vi., 312. The oldfumbler(title).1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.c.1790.Burns, ‘David and Bathsheba,’ p. 40. ‘By Jove,’ says she, ‘what’s this I see, my Lord the King’s afumbler.’Fumbler’s Hall,subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum.See, however, quot. 1690. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.[86]1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Fumbler’s hall, the place where such (fumblers,q.v.) are to be put for their non-performance.Free of Fumbler’s hall,phr.—Said of an impotent man.Fumbles,subs.(thieves’).—Gloves.1825.Kent,Modern Flash Dict.,s.v.1859.Matsell,Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon,s.v.1881.New York Slang Dict., s.v.Fun,subs.(old).—1. A cheat; a trick.1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew,s.v.
1611.Middleton,Roaring Girl, Act iii., Sc. 3.S. Alex.Then he’s a graduate.S. Davy.Say they trust him not.S. Alex.Then is he held afreshmanand a sot.
1767.Colman,Oxonian in Town, ii., 3. And now I find you as dull and melancholy as afreshmanat college after a jobation.
1841.Lever,Charles O’Malley, ch. xiv. ‘This is his third year,’ said the Doctor, ‘and he is only afreshman, having lost every examination.’
1891.Sporting Life, 20 Mar. The mile, bar accidents, will be a gift to B. C. Allen, of Corpus, who has more than maintained the reputation he gained as afresher.
Adj.(University).—Of, or pertaining to, afreshman, or a first year student.
Freshmanship,subs.(old).—Of the quality or state of being a freshman.
1605.Jonson,Volpone, or the Fox, iv., 3. Well, wise Sir Pol., since you have practised thus, Upon myfreshmanship, I’ll try your salt-head With what proof it is against a counter-plot.
Freshman’s Bible,subs. phr.(University).—The University Calendar.
Freshman’s Church,subs. phr.(University).—The Pitt Press at Cambridge. [From its ecclesiastical architecture.]
Freshman’s Landmark,subs. phr.(University).—King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. [From the situation.]
Freshwater Mariner(orSeaman),subs. phr.(old).—A beggar shamming sailor; aturnpike sailor(q.v.).
1567.Harman,Caveat(1869), p. 48.Thesefreshwater mariners, their shipes were drowned in the playne of Salisbury. These kynde … counterfet great losses on the sea.
1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Freshwater seamen, that have never been on the Salt, or made any Voyage, meer Land-Men.
Freshwater Soldier,subs. phr.(old).—A raw recruit.
1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes, Biancone. A goodly, great milke-soppe, afresh water soldier.
1603.Knolles,Hist. of the Turkes. The nobility, asfreshwater soldiers, which had never seen but some slight skirmishes, made light account of the Turks.
1696.Nomenclator.Bachelier aux armes, nouveau ou jeune soudard. Afreshwater souldier: a young souldier: a novice: one that is trayned up to serve in the field.[73]
Fret,To fret one’s gizzard,guts,giblets,kidneys,cream, etc.,verb. phr.(common).—To get harassed and worried about trifles;to tear one’s shirt(q.v.).
Friar,subs.(printers’).—A pale spot in a printed sheet. Fr.,un moine(= monk).
Frib,subs.(old).—A stick. For synonyms,seeToko.
1754.Discoveries of John Poulter, p. 43. A Jacob andfrib; a ladder and stick.
Fribble,subs.(old).—A trifler; a contemptible fop. [From the character in Garrick’sMiss in her Teens(1747)].
1785.Grose,Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1860.Thackeray,Four Georges. George IV.Thatfribble, the leader of such men as Fox and Burke!
Friday-face,subs.(old).—A gloomy, dejected-looking man or woman. [Probably from Friday being, ecclesiastically, the banyan day of the week.] Fr.,figure de carême.
1592.Greene,Groatsworth of Wit, in wks. xii., 120. The Foxe made aFriday-face, counterfeiting sorrow.
1785.Grose,Dict. of the Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1889.Gentleman’s Mag., June, p. 593.Friday-faceis a term still occasionally applied to a sour-visaged person; it was formerly in very common use.
Friday-faced,adj.(old).—Mortified; melancholy; ‘sour-featured’ (Scott).
1592.John Day,Blind Beggar, Act iii., Sc. 2, p. 57.Can.No, youFriday-fac’dfrying-pan, it was to save us all from whipping or a worse shame.
1606.Wily Beguiled(HawkinsEng. Dr., iii., 356). Marry, out upon him! What aFriday-fac’dslave it is! I think in my conscience his face never keeps holiday.
Friend(orLittle Friend),subs.—The menstrual flux ordomestic afflictions(q.v.), whose appearance is sometimes announced by the formula ‘My little friend has come.’ Conventionalisms are queer; poorly; changes (Irish); ‘the Captain’s at home’ (Grose).SeeFlag.
To go and see a sick friend,verb. phr.(venery).—To go on the loose.SeeGreens.
Friend Charles.SeeCharles his friend.
Friendly Lead,subs. phr.(thieves’).—An entertainment (as a sing-song) got up to assist a companion introuble(q.v.), or to raise money for the wife and children of a ‘quodded pal.’
1871.Daily Telegraph, 4 Dec. This was the secret business, the tremendous conspiracy, to compass which it was deemed necessary to act with infinitely more caution than the friends of Bill Sikes feel called on to exercise when they distribute tickets for afriendly leadfor the benefit of Bill, who is ‘just out of his trouble.’
1889.Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 5 Jan. The men frequently club together in afriendly leadto help a brother in distress.
1892.Ally Sloper, 2 Apr., p. 106, col. 3. My father takes the chair atfriendly leads.
Friends in Need,subs. phr.(common).—Lice. For synonyms,seeChates.
Frig,verb trans. and refl.(venery).—To masturbate. Alsosubs.= an act of masturbation. Known sometimes askeeping down the census. [Latin,fricare= to rub.]
English Synonyms.—To bob; to box the Jesuit [‘St. Omer’s lewdness,’ Marston,[74]‘Scourge’ (1598)]; to chuff; to chuffer; to claw (Florio); to digitate (of women); to eat (or get) cock-roaches; to bring up (or off) by hand; to fight one’s turkey (Texan); to finger or finger-fuck (of women); to friggle (Florio); to fuck one’s fist (of men); to fetch mettle (Grose); to handle; to indorse; to jerk, play, pump, toss, or work off; to lark; to milk; to mount a corporal and four; to mess, or pull about; to play with (schoolboys’), to rub up; to shag; to tickle one’s crack (of women); to dash one’s doodle; to touch up; to play paw-paw tricks (Grose); to wriggle (old). For foreign synonyms,seeWriggle.
1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes.Fricciare… tofrig, to wriggle, to tickle.
1611.Cotgrave,Dictionarie.Branler la pique,To Frig.
1728.Bailey,Dict., s.v.Frig, to rub.
c.1716–1746.Robertsonof Struan.Poems, 83. So to a House of office … a School-Boy does repair, To … fr—— his P—— there.
1785.Grose,Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
Frigate,subs.(common).—A woman.
1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Friggatwell rigg’d, a woman well drest and gentile.
1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue. A well-rigg’dfrigate, a well-dressed wench.
Frigging,subs.(venery).—1. The act of masturbation; the ‘cynick friction’ (Marston,Scourge); otherwisesimple infanticide.
2. (old).—Trifling [Grose, 1785.]
Adj. and adv.(vulgar).—An expletive of intensification. Thus,frigging bad= ‘bloody’ bad; afrigging idiot= an absolute fool.SeealsoFouteringandFucking.
Frightfully,adv.(colloquial).—Very. An expletive used as areawfully,beastly,bloody, etc. (q.v.).
Frig-pig,subs.(old).—A finnicking trifler.
1785.Grose,Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811.Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
Frigster(in fem.Frigstress)subs.(venery).—A masturbator; anindorser(q.v., also = a Sodomite).
Frillery,subs.(common).—Feminine underclothing. For synonyms,seeSnowy.To explore one’s frillery(venery) = to grope one’s person.
Frills,subs.(American).—Swagger; conceit; also accomplishments (as music, languages, etc.); and culture;cf.,Man with no frills.
1870.Sacramento Paper(quoted inDe Vere). ‘I can’t bear his talk, it’s allfrills.’
1884.Clemens(‘Mark Twain’),Adventures of HuckFinn.33. I never see such a son. I bet I’ll take some of thesefrillsout of you before I’m done with you.
To put on one’s frills,verb. phr.(American).—To exaggerate;to chant the poker; to swagger; to put onside(q.v.); tosing it(q.v.). Fr.,se gonfler le jabot, andfaire son lard.
1890.Rudyard Kipling,National Observer, March, 1890, p. 69. ‘The Oont.’ It’s the commissariat camelputting on his blooming frills.[75]
2. (venery).—To get wanton orprick-proud(q.v.); in a state ofmust(q.v.).
To have been among one’s frills,verb. phr.(venery).—To have enjoyed the sexual favour. For synonyms,seeGreens.
Frint,subs.(old).—A pawnbroker. For synonyms,seeUncle.
1821.Real Life in London, i., p. 566.
Frisco,subs.(American).—Short for San Francisco.
1870.Bret Harte,Poems, ‘Chiquita.’ Busted hisself at White Pine, and blew out his brains down inFrisco.
1890.Sporting Life, 8 Nov. The battle … took place in the theatre, Market St.,Frisco.
Frisk,subs.(old).—1. A frolic; an outing; alark(q.v.); mischief generally.
1697.Vanbrugh,Provoked Wife, iii., 1. If you have a mind to take afriskwith us, I have an interest with my lord; I can easily introduce you.
1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1825.The English Spy, vi., p. 162. Dick’s atrumpand notelegraph—up to everyfrisk, and down to everymoveof the domini, thoroughbred and nowant of courage.
1852.Dickens,Bleak House, ch. xx., p. 171. ‘When you and I had thefriskdown in Lincolnshire, Guppy, and drove over toseethat house at Castle Wold.’
2. (old).—A dance.
1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., i., 274. Let’s have a neatfriskor so, And then rub on the law.
1782.Cowper,Table Talk, 237. Give him his lass, his fiddle, and hisfrisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may.
1880.Ouida,Moths, ch. xiv. And her fancy-dressfrisks, and her musical breakfasts, were great successes.
3. (venery).—The act of copulation.SeeGreensandRide.
Verb(thieves’).—1. To search;to run the rule over(q.v.); Especially applied to the search made, after arrest, for evidence of character, antecedents, or identity. Hence, careful examination of any kind.
1781.Geo.Parker,Life’s Painter, p. 179. Theyfriskhim? That is search him.Ibid., p. 122.Puttinga lap-feeder in our sack, that you or your blowen had prig’d yourselves though we should stand thefriskfor it.
1828.Jon. Bee,Pict. of London. p. 69. The arms are seized from behind by one, whilst the otherfrisksthe pockets of their contents.
1852.Judson,Mysteries, etc.,of New York, ch. vii. Vel sare, the offisare ’avefriskme: he ’ave not found ze skin or ze dummy, eh?
1859.Matsell,Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, p. 21. ‘The knuck was copped to rights, a skin full of honey was found in his kick’s poke by the copper when hefriskedhim’; [i.e.] the pickpocket was arrested, and when searched by the officer a purse was found in his pantaloons pocket full of money.
2. (thieves’).—To pick pockets; to rob.To frisk a cly= to empty a pocket.
1852.Judson,Mysteries, etc. of New York, ch. iv. You’re as good a knuck as everfriskeda swell.
1883.Daily Telegraph, 13 June, p. 7, col. 3. The ragged little wretches who prowl in gangs about the suburbs, who crawl on their hands and knees into shops in order to ‘friskthe till.’
3. (venery).—To ‘have(q.v.) a woman.’ For synonyms,seeRide.
To dance the Paddington frisk,verb. phr.(old).—To dance on nothing;i.e., to be hanged. [Tyburn Tree was in Paddington.] For synonyms,seeLadder.[76]
Frisker,subs.(old).—A dancer.
1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., ii., 20. At no Whitsun Ale there e’er yet had been Such Fraysters andFriskersas these lads and lasses.
FrivolorFrivvle,verb.(colloquial).—To act frivolously; to trifle. [A resuscitation of an old word used in another sense, viz., to annul, to set aside].
1883.W. Black,Yolande, ch. xx. ‘Mind, I am assuming that you mean business—if you want tofrivole, and pick pretty posies, I shut my door on you but, I say, if you mean business, I have told Mrs. Bell you are to have access to my herbarium, whether I am there or not.’
Frog,subs.(common).—1. A policeman. For synonyms,seeBeakandCopper.
1881.New York Slang Dict., ‘On the Trail.’ I must amputate like a go-away, or thefrogswill nail me.
1886.Graphic, 30 Jan., p. 130, col. 1. A policeman is also called … a ‘frog,’the last-named because he is supposed to jump, as it were, suddenly upon guilty parties.
2. (common).—A Frenchman. Alsofroggyandfrog-eater. [Formerly a Parisian; the shield of whose city bore three toads, while the quaggy state of the streets gave point to a jest common at Versailles before 1791:Qu’en disent les grenouilles?i.e., What do thefrogs(the people of Paris) say?]
1883.Referee, 15 July, p. 7, col. 3. While Ned from Boulogne says ‘Oui mon brave,’ The Froggies must answer for‘Tamatave.’
3. (popular).—A foot. For synonyms,seeCreepers.
To frog on,verb. phr.(American).—To get on; to prosperfrogging-on= success.
Frog-and-Toad,subs.(rhyming).—The main road.
Frog-and-Toe,subs.(American thieves’).—The city of New York.
1859.Matsell,Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, p. 35. Coves, let usfrog-and-toe, coves, let us go to New York.
Froglander,subs.(old).—A Dutchman.Cf.,frog, sense 2.
1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v.
1852.Judson,Mysteries, etc.,of New York, ch. xiv. The funny swag which they raised out of thefroglandercoves.
Frog-salad,subs.(American).—A ballet;i.e., aleg-piece(q.v.).
Frog’s March.To give the frog’s march,verb. phr.(common).—To carry a man face downwards to the station; a device adopted with drunken or turbulent prisoners.
1871.Evening Standard, ‘Clerkenwell Police Report,’ 18 April. In cross-examination the police stated that they did not give the defendant thefrog’s march. Thefrog’s marchwas described to be carrying the face downwards.
1884.Daily News, Oct. 4, p. 5, col. 2. They had to resort to a mode of carrying him, familiarly known in the force, we believe, as thefrog trot, or sometimes as thefrog’s march.… The prisoner is carried with his face downwards and his arms drawn behind him.
1888.Daily Telegraph, 22 Dec. Whether the ‘bobbies’ ran the tipsy man in, treating him meanwhile to a taste of thefrog’s march, and whether he was fined or imprisoned for assaulting the police, is not upon the record.
1890.Bird o’ Freedom, 19 Mar., p. 1,col. 1. And then he gets thefrog’s marchto the nearest Tealeaf’s.[77]
Frog’s Wine,subs. phr.(old).—Gin. For synonyms,seeDrinksandSatin.
1811.Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
Frolic,subs.(common).—A merry-making.
1847.Robb.Squatter Life, p. 133. At all thefrolicksround the country, Jess was hangin’ onter that gal.
Frosty-face,subs.(old).—A pox-pitted man. Grose (1785).
Front,verb(thieves’).—To conceal the operations of a pickpocket; tocover(q.v.).
1879.J. W. HorsleyinMacmillan’s Mag., XL., 506. So my pal said, ‘Frontme (cover me), and I will do him for it.’
Front-attic(or-door,-garden,-parlour,-room, or-window).subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.To have(ordo) abit of front-door work= to copulate.
1823.Bee,Dict. of the Turf, s.v. Mrs. Fubb’sfront-parlour(videTom Rees) is not to be mistaken for any part of any building.
Front-door Mat,subs. phr.(venery).—The female pubic hair. For synonyms,seeFleece.
Front-gut,subs.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.
Frontispiece,subs.(pugilists’).—The face. For synonyms,seeDial.
1818.P. Egan,Boxiana, I., p. 221. Tyne put in right and left upon the Jew’sfrontispiecetwo such severe blows, that Crabbe’s countenance underwent a trifling change.
1845.Buckstone,Green Bushes, i., 1. It’s a marcy my switch didn’t come in contract with your iligantfrontispiece.
1860.Chambers’ Journal XIII., p. 368. His forehead is hisfrontispiece.
1864.A. Trollope,Sm. Ho. at Allington(1884), vol. ii., ch. V., p. 47. He said that he had had an accident—or rather, a row—and that he had come out of it with considerable damage to hisfrontispiece.
1891.Sporting Life, 28 Mar. It must be confessed that the ludicrous was attained when Griffiths subsequently appeared with a short black pipe in his distorted and batteredfrontispiece.
Front-windows,subs.(common).—1. The eyes; also the face.
2. Insing.(venery).—The femalepudendum.Cf.,front-attic; and for synonyms,seeMonosyllable.
Frost,subs.(common).—A complete failure.Cf., Fr.,un four noir. Alsoun temps noir= a blank interval; a prolonged silence (as when an actor’s memory fails him).
1885.Saturday Review, 15 Aug., p. 218. He is an absolute and perfectfrost.
1885.Bell’s Life, 3 Jan., p. 3, col. 6. We regret we cannot write favorably concerning this matter, the affair being almost as big afrostathletically as it was financially.
1889.Star, 17 Jan. The pantomime was a deadfrost.
2. (common).—A dearth of work;to have a frost= to be idle.
Froudacious,Froudacity,adj.andsubs.Seequots.
1888.Colonies and India, 14 Nov. The word ‘Froudacity,’ invented by Mr. Darnell Davis in his able review ofThe Bow of Ulysses, recently published, has reached the height of popularity in theAustralasianColonies, where it has come into everyday use. In the Melbourne Assembly the other day an hon. member observed—speaking of some remarks made by a previous speaker—that he never heard[78]suchfroudaciousstatements in his life. The colonial papers are beginning, also, to spell the word with a small ‘f,’ which is significant.
1889.Graphic, 16 Feb. By exposing some of Mr. Froude’s manifold errors (the most dangerous is that which assumes the sour Waikato clays to be rich because they grow fern) he justifies the Australian adjectiveFroudacious.
Froust,subs.(Harrow School).—1. Extra sleep allowed on Sunday mornings and whole holidays. Fr.,faire du lard.
2. (common).—A stink; stuffiness (in a room).
Frousty,adj.(common).—Stinking.
Frout,adj.(Winchester College).—Angry; vexed.
Frow(orFroe, orVroe),subs.(old).—A woman; a wife; a mistress. [From the Dutch.]
1607.Dekker,Westward Ho, ActV., Sc. 1. Eat with ’em as hungerly as soldiers; drink as if we werefroes.
1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew, V. Brush to yourfroeand wheedle for crap, c. whip to your mistress and speak her fair to give or lend you some Money.
1754.B. Martin,Eng. Dict.(2 ed.), s.v.
1789.Parker,Life’s Painter, p. 119 A flash of lightning next Bess tipt each cull andfrow.
Fruitful Vine,subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.
1811.Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.Fruitful vine. A woman’s private parts,i.e., that has flowers every month, and bears fruit in nine.
Frummagemed,adj.(old).—Choked; strangled; spoilt.
1671.R. Head,English Rogue, Pt. I., ch. v., 49 (1874).Frummagem, Choakt.
1724.E. Coles,Eng. Dict.Frummigam,c.choaked.
1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Choaked, strangled, or hanged. Cant.
1815.Scott,Guy Mannering, ch. xxviii. ‘If I had not helped you with these very fambles (holding up her hands), Jean Baillie would havefrummagem’dyou, ye feckless do-little!’
1819.Moore,Tom Crib’s Memorial, p. 21. There he lay, almostfrummagem’d.
Frump,subs.(old).—1. A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a sneer; a jest.
1553.Wilson,Art of Rhetorique, p. 137. (He) shall be able to abashe a right worthie man, and make him at his witte’s ende, through the sodaine quicke and vnlookedfrumpegiuen.
1589.Greene,Menaphon, p. 45. For women’s paines are more pinching if they be girded with afrumpethan if they be galled with a mischiefe.
1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes.Bichiacchia, jestes, toyes,frumps, flim-flam tales, etc.
1606.T. Dekker,Seven Deadly Sinnes, p. 44 (ed. Arber). The courtiers gives you an open scoffe, ye clown a secret mock, the cittizen yat dwels at your threshald, a ieeryfrump.
1630.Taylor,Works. But yet, me thinkes, he gives thee but afrumpe, In telling how thee kist a wenches rumpe.
1662.Rump Songs, ‘Arsy-Varsy,’etc., ii., 47. As a preface of honor and not as afrump, First with a Sir reverence ushers the Rump.
1668.Dryden,An Evening’s Love, Act IV. Sc. 3. Not to be behindhand with you in yourfrumps, I give you back your purse of gold.
2. (common).—A slattern; more commonly a prim old lady; the correlative offogey(q.v.). Fr.,un graillon.
1831.J. R. Planché,Olympic Revels, Sc. i. Cheat, you stingyfrump! Who wants to cheat?
1837.Barham,Ingoldsby Legends, I., p. 157. Get into the hands of the other oldfrumps.[79]
1857.Thackeray,Virginians, ch. xxxi. She is changed now, isn’t she? What an old Gorgon it is! She is a great patroness of your book-men, and when that oldfrumpwas young they actually made verses about her.
3. (old).—A cheat; a trick.
1602.Rowland,Greene’s Ghost, 37. They come off with their …frumps.
Verb(old).—To mock; to insult.
1589.Nashe,Month’s Mind, in Works, Vol. I., p. 158. One of them … maketh a iest ofPrinces, and ‘the troubling of the State, and offending of her Maiestie,’ hee turneth of with afrumpingforsooth, as though it were a toie to think of it.
1593.G. Harvey,Pierces Super, in Works II., 107. That despiseth the graces of God, flowteth the constellations of heaven,frumpeththe operations of nature.
1609.Man in the Moone.Hee …frumpeththose his mistresse frownes on.
1757.Garrick,Irish Widow, I., i. Yes, he wasfrumped, and called me old blockhead.
Frumper,subs.(old).—A sturdy man; a good blade.
1825.Kent,Modern Flash Dict., s.v.
Frumpish,adj.(colloquial).—Cross-grained; old-fashioned and severe in dress, manners, morals, and notions; ill-natured; given to frumps. AlsoFrumpy.
1589.Greene,Tullies Love, in wks. vii., 131. Who were you but as fauourable, as you arefrumpish, would soone censure by my talke, how deepe I am reade in loues principles.
1701.Farquhar,Sir Harry Wildair, Act. V., Sc. 5. She got, I don’t know how, a crotchet of jealousy in her head. This made herfrumpish, but we had ne’er an angry word.
1757.Foote,Author, Act II. And methought she looked veryfrumpishand jealous.
1764.O’Hara,Midas, I., 3. La! mother, why sofrumpish?
1864.Dickens,Our Mutual Friend, Bk. I., ch. xi. ‘Don’t fancy me afrumpyold married woman, my dear; I was married but the other day, you know.’
1889.Modern Society, 12 Oct., p.1271, col. 2. Quite an elderly and superannuated look is given to the toilette which is finished off by a woollen cloud or silken shawl, and only invalids and sixty-year-old women should be allowed suchfrumpishprivileges.
Frushee,subs.(Scots’).—An open jam tart.
Fry,verb(common).—To translate into plain English.Cf.,boil down.
1881.Jas. Payn,Grape from a Thorn, ch. xxx. ‘I shall repose the greatest confidence in you, my dear girl, which one human being can entrust to another,’ was one of its sentences, which, when it came ‘to befried,’ meant that she should delegate to her the duties of combing Fido and cutting her canary’s claws.
Go and fry your face,phr.(common).—A retort expressive of incredulity, derision, or contempt.
Frying-pan.To jump from the frying-pan into the fire,verb. phr.(common).—To go from bad to worse.Cf., ‘from the smoke into the smother’ (As You Like it, i., 2.). Fr.,tomber de la poêle dans la braise.
1684.Bunyan,Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II. Some, though they shun thefrying-pan, do leap into the fire.
To Fry the Pewter,verb.phr.(thieves’).—To melt down pewter measures.
F Sharp,subs. phr.(common).—A flea;cf., B flat.
Fuant,subs.(old).—Excrement.—B. E.Dict. of the Canting Crew.
Fub,verb. (old).—To cheat; to steal; to put off with false excuses. AlsoFubbery= cheating, stealing, deception.[80]
1598.Shakspeare,2 Henry IV., II., 1. I have borne, and borne, and borne, and have beenfubbed off, andfubbed offfrom this day to that day.
1604.Marston,Malcontent, i., 3. O no; but dream the most fantastical. O heaven!O fubbery! fubbery!
1619.Fletcher,Mons. Thomas, ii., 2. My letterfubb’dtoo.
1647.Cartwright,Ordinary.iv., 4. I won’t befubbed.
FubseyorFubsy,adj.(old).—Plump; fat; well-filled.Fubsy dummy= a well-filled pocket book;fubsywench = a plump girl.
1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1825.English Spy, I., p. 188. Old dowagers, theirfubsyfaces, Painted to eclipse the Graces.
1837.Marryat,Snarley-yow, I., ch. viii. Seated on the widow’s littlefubsysofa.
Fubsiness,subs.(common).—Any sort of fatness.
Fuck,subs.(venery).—1. An act of coition. For synonyms,seeGreens.
2. (venery).—The seminal fluid. For synonyms,seeCream.
Verb.(common).—To copulate. For synonyms,seeGreensandRide.
c.1540.David Lyndsay, ‘Flyting with King James.’ Ayefukkandlike ane furious fornicator.
1568.Clerk,Bannatyne MSS., Hunterian Soc. Publication, p. 298. He clappit fast, he kist, he chukkit, As with the glaikkis he wer ourgane; Yit be his feiris he wald haiffukkit.
1568. Anonymous,Bannatyne MSS., Hunterian Soc. Publication, p. 399. ‘In Somer when Flouris will Smell.’ Allace! said sch, my awin sweit thing, Your courtlyfukkinggaris me fling, Ye wirk sae weill.
1598.Florio,A Worlde of Wordes, Fottere. To jape; to sarde, tofucke; to swive; to occupy.
1620.Percy,Folio MSS., p. 459. [Hales and Furnivall, 1867.] A mighty mind to clipp, kisse, and toffuckher.
1647–80.Rochester, ‘Written under Nelly’s Picture.’ Her fatherfuckedthem right together.
1683.Earl of Dorset, ‘A Faithful Catalogue.’ From St. James’s to the Land of Thule, There’s not a whore whof——sso like a mule.
c.1716–1746.Robertsonof Struan,Poems, 256. But she gave proof that she couldf——k, Or she is damnably bely’d.
1728.Bailey,English Dict., s.v.Fuck…Feminam subigitare.
1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue.F——k, to copulate.
c.1790(?).Burns,Merry Muses. And yet misca’s a poor thing Thatfucksfor its bread.
Fuckable,adj.(venery).—Desirable. AlsoFucksome.
Fucker,subs.(common).—1. A lover; afancy joseph(q.v.).
2. (common).—A term of endearment, admiration, derision, etc.
Fuck-finger,subs. phr.(venery).—A fricatrix.
Fuck-fist,subs. phr.(venery).—Afrigster(q.v.); a masturbator. For synonyms,seeMilkman.
Fuck-hole,subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.
Fucking,subs.(venery).—Generic for the ‘act of kind.’
1568.Scott,Bannatyne MSS., Hunterian Soc. Publication, p. 363. ‘To the Derisioun of Wantoun Wemen.’ Thir foure, the suth to sane, Enforsis thame tofucking… Quod Scott.[81]
1575.Satirical Poems, etc., Scottish Text Soc. Pub. (1889–90) i., 208. ‘A Lewd Ballat.’ To se forett the holy frere hisfukkingso deplore.
Adj.(common).—A qualification of extreme contumely.
Adv.(common).—Intensitive and expletive; a more violent form ofbloody(q.v.).SeeFoutering.
Fuckish,adj.(venery).—Wanton;proud(q.v.); inclined for coition.
Fuckster,subs.(venery).—A goodperformer(q.v.); one specially addicted to the act. Awoman-fucker(Florio), but in femininefuckstress.
Fud,subs.(venery).—The pubic hair. For synonyms,seeFleece. Also the tail of a hare or rabbit.
1785.Burns,The Jolly Beggars. They scarcely left to co’er theirfuds.
Fuddle,subs.(common).—1. Drink. [Wedgwood: A corruption offuzz.]
1621.Burton,Anatomy of Melancholy. The university troop dined with the Earl of Abingdon and came back wellfuzzed.
1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v.fuddle, Drink. ‘This is rumfuddle,c.this is excellent Tipple.’
1705.Ward,Hudibras Redivivus, I., Pt. iv., p. 18. And so, said I, we sipp’d ourfuddle, As women in the straw do caudle, ’Till every man had drown’d his noddle.
1733.Bailey,Erasmus, p. 125 (ed. 1877). Don’t go away; they have had their dose offuddle.
2. (common).—A drunken bout; adrunk.
1864.Glasgow Citizen, 9 Dec. Turner is given to afuddleat times.
Verb.(colloquial).—To be drunk.
1720.Durfey,Pills, etc., vi., 265. All day he willfuddle.
1754.B. Martin,Eng. Dict.(2nd ed.). Tofuddle. 1. To make a person drunk. 2. To grow drunk.
1770.Foote.Lame Lover, iii. Come, Hob or Nob, Master Circuit—let us try if we can’tfuddlethe serjeant.
1855.Thackeray,Newcomes, ch. x. He boxed the watch; hefuddledhimself at taverns; he was no better than a Mohock.
1889.Echo, 15 Feb. If rich, you mayfuddlewith Bacchus all night, And be borne to your chamber remarkably tight.
Fuddlecap(orFuddler),subs.(common).—A drunkard; a boon companion. For synonyms,seeLushington.
1607.Dekker,Jests to make you Merie, in wks. (Grosart) ii., 299. And your perfectfuddlecap[is known] by his red nose.
d.1682.T. Browne,Works, iii., 93. True Protestantfuddlecaps.
1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew,fuddlecap, a drunkard.
1748.T. Dyche,Dictionary(5th ed.)Fuddlecap(S.) one that loves tippling, an excessive drinker, or drunkard.
1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Fuddled,adj.(colloquial).—Stupid with drink. For synonyms,seeDrinksandScrewed.
1661.Pepys,Diary, 8 March After dinner, to drink all the afternoon … at last come in Sir William Wale, almostfuddled.
1713.Guardian, No. 145. It was my misfortune to call in at Tom’s last night, a littlefuddled.
1730.Thomson,Autumn, 537. The table floating round, And pavement faithless to thefuddledfoot.
1838.Dickens,Nich. Nickleby, ch. lx., p. 485. You’re a littlefuddledto-night,[82]and may not be able to see this as clearly as you would at another time.
1841.Punch, I., p. 74. The Sultan got veryfuddledlast night with forbidden juice in the harem, and tumbled down the ivory steps.
1864.Glasgow Citizen, 19 Nov. No other word has so many equivalents as ‘drunk.’… One very common and old one has escaped Mr. Hotten—fuddled.
1888.Daily News, 28 Nov. Music halls would soon decrease in numbers if drink were not sold in them, for sober people would not go to see spectacles only attractive to those who were halffuddled.
Fudge,subs.(colloquial).—Nonsense; humbug; an exaggeration; a falsehood. [Provincial French,fuche,feuche; an exclamation of contempt from Low Ger.futsch= begone;see, however, quots. 1700 and 1712.] Also as an exclamation of contempt.
1700.Isaac Disraeli,Notes on the Navy. There was, in our time, one Captain Fudge, a commander of a merchant-man; who, upon his return from a voyage, always brought home a good cargo of lies; insomuch that now, aboard ship, the sailors, when they hear a great lie, cry outfudge.
1712.W. Crouch,A Collection of Papers. In the year 1664 we were sentenced for banishment to Jamaica by Judges Hyde and Twisden, and our number was 55. We were put on board the ship Black Eagle; the master’s name wasFudge, by some calledLying Fudge.
1766.Goldsmith,Vicar of Wakefield, ch. xi. Who … would cry outfudge!an expression which displeased us all, and, in some measure, damped the rising spirit of the conversation.
1841.Lytton,Night and Morning, Bk. II., ch. vii. Very genteel young man—prepossessing appearance—(that’s afudge!)—highly educated; usher in a school—eh?
1850.Thackeray,Rebecca and Rowena, ch. i. Her ladyship’s proposition was what is called bosh … orfudgein plain Saxon.
1861.Cornhill Magazine, iv., 102. ‘A Cumberland Mare’s Nest.’ … Up jumped the worthy magistrate, And seizing ‘Burn,’ Of justices the oracle and badge, he straight Descended to his ‘lion’s den’ (asobriquetinfudgemeant) Where he, ‘a second Daniel,’ had often ‘come to judgment.’
1864.Tangled Talk, p. 108. It isfudgeto tell a child to ‘love’ every living creature—a tapeworm, for instance, such as is bottled up in chemists windows.
1865.Morning Star, 1 June. Old as I am and halfwoorout, I wouldlay(too bad, Mr. Henley, this) upon my back and hallofudge!
1882.Daily Telegraph, 5 Oct., p. 2, col. 2. Much that we hear concerning the ways and means of the working classes is sheerfudge.
Verb.(colloquial).—1. To fabricate; to interpolate; to contrive without proper materials.
1776.Foote,The Bankrupt, iii., 2. That last ‘suppose’ isfudgedin.
1836.Marryat,Midshipman Easy, ch. xviii. By the time that he did know something about navigation, he discovered that his antagonist knew nothing. Before they arrived at Malta, Jack couldfudgea day’s work.
1858.Shirley Brooks,Gordian Knot. Robert Spencer was hiding from his creditors, orfudgingmedical certificates.
1859.G. A. Sala, inJohn Bull, 21 May. I had provided myself with a good library of books of Russian travel, and sofudgedmyJourney Due North.
2. (schoolboys’).—To copy; to crib; to dodge or escape.
1877.Blanch,The Blue Coat Boysp. 97.Fudge,verb.,trans.andintrans.To prompt a fellow in class, or prompt oneself in class artificially. Thence to tell;e.g., ‘fudgeme what the time is.’
3. (common).—To botch; to bungle; tomuff(q.v.)
4. (schoolboys’).—To advance the hand unfairly at marbles.[83]
Fug,verb.(Shrewsbury School).—To stay in a stuffy room.
Fugel,verb. (venery).—To possess;to have(q.v.).
1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., i., 126. Whofugelledthe Parson’s fine Maid.
Fuggy,subs.(schoolboys’).—A hot roll.
Adj. (Shrewsbury School).—Stuffy.
Fugo,subs.(obsolete).—The rectum, or (Cotgrave) ‘bung-hole.’
1720.Durfey,Pills, etc., vi., 247. This maid, she like a beast turned herfugoto the East.
FulhamsorFullams,subs.(old).—Loaded dice; called ‘high’ or ‘low’fulhamsas they were intended to turn up high or low.Cf.,gourd. [Conjecturally, because manufactured at Fulham, or because that village was a notorious resort of blacklegs.] For synonyms,seeUphills.
1594.Nashe,Unf. Traveller, in wks. v., 27. The dice of late are growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper alike, langrets,fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them will not affoord a man his dinner.
1596.Shakspeare,Merry Wives of Windsor, i., 3. Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd, andfullamholds, Andhighandlowbeguile the rich and poor.
1599.Jonson,Every Man out of His Hum., iii., 1.Car.: Who! he serve? ’sblood, he keeps high men, and low men, he! he has—fair living at Fullam. [Whalley’s note in Gifford’sJonson,The dice were loaded to run high or low; hence they were calledhigh menorlow men, and sometimes high and lowfullams. Calledfullamseither because F. was the resort of sharpers, or because they were chiefly made there.]
1664.Butler,Hudibras, Part II., C. i., 1. 642. But I do wonder you should chuse This way t’ attack me with your muse, As one cut out to pass your tricks on, Withfulhamsof poetic fiction. [Note in Dr. Nash’s Ed., vol. I., p. 272 (Ed. 1835). ‘That is, with cheats or impositions.Fulhamwas a cant word for a false die, many of them being made at that place.’]
1822.Scott,Fortunes of Nigel, ch. xxiii. Men talk of high and low dice,Fulhamsand bristles … and a hundred ways of rooking besides.
2. (colloquial).—A sham; amake-believe(q.v.). [From sense 1.]
1664.Butler,Hudibras, ii., 1,Fulhamsof poetic fiction.
Fulham Virgin,subs. phr.(colloquial).—A fast woman.Cf.,Bankside lady;Covent Garden nun;St. John’s Wood vestal, etc.
Fulk,verb(old schoolboys’).—To use an unfair motion of the hand in plumping at taw.—Grose.
Fulke,verb(venery).—To copulate. [A euphemism suggested by Byron inDon Juan, the first and last words of which, so adepts tell you, are ‘I’ and ‘fulke.’]
Fulker,subs.(old).—A pawnbroker. For synonyms,seeUncle.
1566.Gascoigne,Supposes, ii., 3. TheFulkerwill not lend you a farthing upon it.
Full,adj.(colloquial).—1. Drunk. For synonyms,seeDrinksandScrewed.
1888.Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. When he wasfullthe police came and jugged.
2. (turf). Used by bookmakers to signify that they have laid all the money they wish against a particular horse.
Full-guts,subs. phr.(common).—A swag-bellied man or woman.[84]
A Full hand,subs. phr.(American waiters’). Five large beers. For analogous expressions,seeGo.
Full in the belly,subs. phr.(colloquial).—With child.
Full in the pasterns(orthe hocks),subs. phr.(colloquial).—Thick-ankled.
Full team,subs. phr.(American).—An eulogium. A man is afull teamwhen of consequence in the community. Variants arewhole team, orwhole team and a horse to spare.Cf.one-horse= mean, insignificant, or strikingly small.
Full in the waistcoat,adj. phr.(colloquial).—Swag-bellied.
Full of ’em,adj. phr.(common).—Lousy; nitty; full of fleas.
Full to the bung,adj. phr.(colloquial).—Very drunk. For synonyms,seeDrinksandScrewed.
To have(orwear)a full suit of mourning,verb. phr.(pugilists’).—To have two black eyes.Half-mourning= one black eye. For synonyms,seeMouse.
To come full bob,verb. phr.(old colloquial).—To come suddenly; to come full tilt.
1672.Marvell,Rehearsal Transposed(in Grosart, iii., 414). The page and you meetfull bob.
Full against,adv. phr.1. Dead, or decidedly opposed to, a person, thing, or place.
Full-bottomed(or-breeched, or-pooped),adv. phr.(colloquial).—Broad in the hind;barge-arsed(q.v.)
Full-flavoured,adv. phr.(colloquial).—Peculiarly rank: as a story, an exhibition of profane swearing, an emission of wind, etc.
Full-fledged,adv. phr.(venery).—Ripe for defloration.
Full-gutted,adv. phr.(colloquial).—Stout; swag-bellied.
Full of emptiness,adv. phr.(common).—Utterly void.
Full on,adv. phr.(colloquial).—Set strongly in a given direction, especially in an obscene sense:e.g.,full on for itorfull on for one= ready and willingau possible.
At full chisel,adv. phr.(American).—At full speed; with the greatest violence or impetuousity. Alsofull drive;full split.Cf.hickety split;ripping;staving along;two-thirty, etc.
In full blast,swing, etc.,adv. phr.(colloquial).—In the height of success; in hot pursuit.
1859.Sala,Twice Round the Clock, 5 a.m., Part I. At five a.m. the publication of theTimesnewspaper is, to use a north-country mining expression, in ‘full blast.’
1884.Daily News, Feb. 9, p. 5, col. 2. If he visit New York in that most pleasant season, the autumn, he will find that the ‘fall’ trade is ‘infull blast.’
1888.Daily Telegraph, 17 Nov. By half-past ten o’clock the smoking-room wasin full swing.
In full dig,adv. phr.(common).—On full pay.[85]
In full feather,seeFeather.
In full fig.—1.SeeFig(to which may be added the following illustrative quotations).
1836.M. Scott,Cruise of the Midge, p. 178. In front of this shed—full fig, in regular Highland costume, philabeg, short hose, green coatee, bonnet and feather, marched the bagpiper.
1836.M. Scott,Cringle’s Log, ch. xi. Captain Transom, the other lieutenant, and myself in full puff, leading the van, followed by about fourteen seamen.
1838.Haliburton,Clockmaker, (2nd ed.), ch. viii. ‘Lookin’ as pleased as a peacock when it’sin full figwith its head and tail up.’
1841.Punch, i., p. 26, col. 1. Dressedin full fig—sword very troublesome—getting continually between my legs.
1874.Mrs. H. Wood,Johnny Ludlow(1st ed.), No. IV., p. 62. When our church bells were going for service, Major Parrifer’s carriage turned out with the ladies allin full fig.
2.adv. phr.(venery).—Said of an erection of thepenis;prick-proud(q.v.). For synonyms,seeHorn.
Like a straw-yard bull: full of fuck and half starved,phr.(venery). A friendly retort to the question, ‘How goes it?’i.e., How are you?
Full of it,phr.(common).—With child.
Full of guts,phr.(colloquial).—Full of vigour; excellently inspired and done: as a picture, a novel, and so forth.SeeGuts.
Full of beans,seeBeans.
Full of bread,seeBread.
Fuller’s Earth,subs. phr.(old).—Gin. For synonyms,seeSatin.
1821.Real Life in London, i., 394. The swell covies and out-and-outers find nothing so refreshing, after a night’s spree, when the victualling office is out of order, as a littlefuller’s earth, or dose of Daffy’s.
1823.Moncrieff,Tom and Jerry, iii., 3. Bring me de kwarten of defuller’s earth.
Fullied.To be fullied,verb. phr.(thieves’).—To be committed for trial. [From the newspaper expression, ‘Fully committed.’] Fr.,être mis sur la planche au pain.
1851–61.H. Mayhew,London Lab. and Lon. Poor, Vol. iii., p. 397. He got acquitted for that there note after he had me ‘pinched’ (arrested). I gotfullied(fully committed).
1879.Horsley, ‘Autobiography of a Thief,’ inMacmillan’s Magazine, xl., 506. I … was thenfulliedand got this stretch and a half.
1889.Answers, 13 April, p. 313. At the House of Detention I often noticed such announcements as ‘Jack from Bradfordfulliedfor smashing, and expects seven stretch,’i.e., fully committed for trial for passing bad money, and expects seven years’ penal servitude.
Fulness.There’s not fulness enough in the sleeve top.phr.(tailors’).—A derisive answer to a threat.
Fumbler,subs.(old).—An impotent man.
1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Fumbler, c., an unperforming husband; one that is insufficient; a weak Brother.
1719.Durfey,Pills, etc., vi., 312. The oldfumbler(title).
1785.Grose,Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
c.1790.Burns, ‘David and Bathsheba,’ p. 40. ‘By Jove,’ says she, ‘what’s this I see, my Lord the King’s afumbler.’
Fumbler’s Hall,subs. phr.(venery).—The femalepudendum.See, however, quot. 1690. For synonyms,seeMonosyllable.[86]
1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew.Fumbler’s hall, the place where such (fumblers,q.v.) are to be put for their non-performance.
Free of Fumbler’s hall,phr.—Said of an impotent man.
Fumbles,subs.(thieves’).—Gloves.
1825.Kent,Modern Flash Dict.,s.v.
1859.Matsell,Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon,s.v.
1881.New York Slang Dict., s.v.
Fun,subs.(old).—1. A cheat; a trick.
1690. B. E.,New Dict. of the Canting Crew,s.v.