full ride
A full scholarship to a university or college
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full screw
A corporal.
full speed ahead
Proceed with a plan or activity as quickly and energetically as possible
full tide
The most active or successful stage of something
full tilt
With maximum energy or effort
full tilt boogie
With full energy and enthusiasm
full to the gills
Completely full or saturated
full up
Quite full, occupied to its utmost capacity. Said also of one who is drunk. Cp. Fou.
full whack
something done completely or to the fullest extent
full-time job
A task or activity that requires a significant amount of time and effort
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.
fully rigged
Completely prepared or equipped
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.
fun and frolics
Enjoyable and lively activities
fun and games
Enjoyable activities or entertainment
fundamental colours
The seven colours of the spectrum: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.
fundu
wonderful, brilliant
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.
funk you
Fuck you.
funkhole
A foxhole.
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 as a barrel of monkeys
Very funny.
funny bone
a sensitive spot on the elbow
Funny Bone
A pun on the word humerus, the Latin (and hence scientific) name for the upper bone of the arm. It is the inner condyle of this, or, to speak untechnically, the knob, or enlarged end of the bone terminating where the ulnar nerve is exposed at the elbow. A knock on this bone at the elbow produces a painful sensation.
funny man
A person who is amusing or entertaining
funny stuff
Amusing or entertaining things
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).
fur and feathers
Everything and everyone
Furry Dance
An ancient ceremony of Helston and other Cornish towns, held on May 8th, locally known as Flora's Day. Couples dance through the streets and houses to a tune of immemorial antiquity, probably coeval with the dance, which may be of Druidic origin.
furry triangle
The vagina.
fuss
A confusion, a hurry, an unnecessary to do about trifles.
fuss and bother
Unnecessary or annoying trouble and effort
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.
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