frenchified
Infected with the venereal disease. The mort is Frenchified: the wench is infected.
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Expressions you’ll hear in Britain and Ireland — distinctly British usage first, then widespread staples.
fresh
Said of a person slightly intoxicated.
fresh milk
Cambridge new comers to the university.
freshman
One just entered a member of the university.
freshman
A University man during his first year. The official appellation for the students until they have passed the Previous or First Cambridge Examination, otherwise called the Smalls or Little Go, is Junior Sophs or Sophisters. After this they are Senior Sophs until their last term, when they are Questionists, or preparing "ad respondendum quæstioni." At Oxford the title FRESHMAN lasts for the first term.
fribble
An effeminate fop; a name borrowed from a celebrated character of that kind, in the farce of Miss in her Teens, written by Mr. Garrick.
friday-face
A dismal countenance. Before, and even long after the Reformation, Friday was a day of abstinence, or jour maigre. Immediately after the restoration of king Charles II. a proclamation was issued, prohibiting all publicans from dressing any suppers on a Friday.
friday-face
A gloomy-looking man. Most likely from FRIDAY being a day of meagre fare among Catholics and High Church Protestants.
frig pig
A trifling, fiddle-faddle fellow.
frigate
A well-rigged frigate; a well-dressed wench.
frisk
To dance the Paddington frisk; to be hanged.
frisk
To search; FRISKED, searched by a constable or other officer.
frog
A policeman. Because, by a popular delusion, he is supposed to pounce suddenly on delinquents.
frog’s march
The manner in which four or more policemen carry a drunken or turbulent man to the station-house. The victim is held face downwards, one constable being at each shoulder, while the others hold on above the knees. Often there is another active and intelligent officer who beats time to the march on the recalcitrant hero’s posteriors.
frosty face
One pitted with the small pox.
frow
A girl, or wife. German, FRAU; Dutch, VROUW.
fruitful vine
A woman's private parts, i.e. that has FLOWERS every month, and bears fruit in nine months.
frummagemmed
Choaked, strangled, suffocated, or hanged. CANT.
frummagemmed
Annihilated, strangled, garrotted, or spoilt.—Old Cant.
frump
A slatternly woman, a gossip.—Ancient. In modern slang it is the feminine of FOGEY, and means a prim old lady, who is generally termed "a regular old FRUMP."
fubsey
Plump. A fubsey wench; a plump, healthy wench.
fuddle
Drunk. This is rum fuddle; this is excellent tipple, or drink. Fuddle; drunk. Fuddle cap; a drunkard.
fudge
Nonsense, stupidity. Todd and Richardson only trace the word to Goldsmith. Disraeli, however, gives the origin to a Captain Fudge, a great fibber, who told monstrous stories, which made his crew say in answer to any improbability, "You FUDGE it!"—See Remarks on the Navy, 1700. At page 87 of a collection of some papers of William Crouch (8vo, 1712), the Quaker, we find a mention of this Captain.
fulhams
Loaded dice are called high and lowmen, or high and low fulhams, by Ben Jonson and other writers of his time; either because they were made at Fulham, or from that place being the resort of sharpers.
full against
Opposed to. As, "I’m FULL AGAINST him," I decidedly object to, or dislike him, or I am opposed to him. The term originated with the bookmakers; who, when they have laid all their money against a certain horse, put a mark against his name, and reply to all inquiries, "FULL AGAINST him." This grew to "FULL AGAINST his winning," and was thus taken, when shortened, to express feeling the reverse of friendly.
full blast
At maximum volume or intensity
full feather
Good condition, high spirits. Also any one gaily dressed is said to be in FULL FEATHER.
full fig
Full costume, male or female uniform or evening dress.
full march
The Scotch greys are in full march by the crown office; the lice are crawling down his head.
full of beans
Talking nonsense or exaggerating
full of emptiness
Jocular term for empty.
fullams
False dice, which always turn up high.—Shakspeare.
fully
"to be FULLIED," to be committed for trial. Term in general use among thieves. Possibly from the reports which, in the slang of the penny-a-liner, say "the prisoner was FULLY committed for trial." The magistrates often say FULLY committed also, whatever that may mean.
fumbler
An old or impotent man. To fumble, also means to go awkwardly about any work, or manual operation.
fun
A cheat, or trick. Do you think to fun me out of it? Do you think to cheat me?--Also the breech, perhaps from being the abbreviation of fundament. I'll kick your fun. CANT.
funk
To smoke; figuratively, to smoke or stink through fear. I was in a cursed funk. To funk the cobler; a schoolboy's trick, performed with assafoettida and cotton, which are stuffed into a pipe: the cotton being lighted, and the bowl of the pipe covered with a coarse handkerchief, the smoke is blown out at the small end, through the crannies of a cobler's stall.
funk
Trepidation, nervousness, cowardice. To FUNK, to be afraid or nervous.
funking the cobbler
A bold schoolboy trick, performed with assafœtida and cotton stuffed into a hollow tube or cow’s horn. The cotton being lighted, the smoke is blown in through the keyhole of a door, or the crannies of a cobbler’s stall.
funny
A rowing boat with both ends pointed and out of the water.
funny-bone
The extremity of the elbow—or rather, the muscle which passes round it between the two bones, a blow on which causes painful tingling in the fingers. Facetiously derived, from its being the extremity of the humerus (humorous).
fuss
A confusion, a hurry, an unnecessary to do about trifles.
fussock
A lazy fat woman. An old fussock; a frowsy old woman.
fustian
Bombast language. Red fustian; port wine.
fusty luggs
A beastly, sluttish woman.
fye-buck
A sixpence.—Nearly obsolete.
gab
GABBER or GABBLE, talk; "gift of the GAB," loquacity, or natural talent for speech-making.—Anglo-Norman; GAB is also found in the Danish and Old Norse.
gaby
A simpleton, a country bumpkin. Probably from gape.
gad
A trapesing slatternly woman.—Gipsy. Anglo-Saxon, GÆDELING.
gad-so
An exclamation said to be derived from the Italian word cazzo.
gadding the hoof
Going without shoes. GADDING, roaming about, although used in an old translation of the Bible, is now only heard amongst the lower orders.
gaff
A fair. The drop coves maced the joskins at the gaff; the ring-droppers cheated the countryman at the fair.
gaff
A penny play-house, in which talking is not permitted on the stage. See PENNY GAFF.
gaffer
A master, or employer; term used by "navvies," and general in Lancashire and North of England. Early English for an old man. See "BLOW THE GAFF."
gaffing
Tossing halfpence, or counters.—North, where it means tossing up three halfpennies. One man tosses, and another calls. Sometimes the coins are tossed from a stick, and the tosser keeps those which fall heads uppermost.
gag
An instrument used chiefly by housebreakers and thieves, for propping open the mouth of a person robbed, thereby to prevent his calling out for assistance.
gag
A lie; "a GAG he told to the beak."—Thieves’ Cant.
gage
A quart pot, or a pint; also a pipe. CANT.
gage
A small quantity of anything; as "a GAGE of tobacco," meaning a pipeful; "a GAGE of gin," a glassful. GAGE was, in the last century, a chamber utensil.
gaggers
High and Low. Cheats, who by sham pretences, and wonderful stories of their sufferings, impose on the credulity of well meaning people. See RUM GAGGER.
galeny
Old cant term for a fowl of any kind; now a respectable word in the West of England, signifying a Guinea fowl.—Vide Grose. Latin, GALLINA.
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