F

# The Letter F

## FACER

a Bumber without Lip-room.

## FADGE

as, It won't fadge or do.

## FAG

to Beat; as, Fag the Bloss, Bang the Wench; Fag the Fen, Drub the Whore. Whence [[to Faggot, next entry]].

## To FAGGOT

to bind Hand and Foot; as Faggot the Culls; i.e. Bind the Men.

## FAIR-Roe-Buck

a Woman in the Bloom of her Beauty.

## FAMBLE-Cheats

Gold Rings, or Gloves.

## FAMBLERS

Villains that go up and down selling counterfeit rings, &c.

## FAMBLES

Rings; also the Hands.

## To FAMGRASP

to agree or make up a Difference. Famgrasp the Cove, to agree with the Adversary.

## FAMILY of Love

Lew'd Women, Whores; also a Sect.

## FAMMS

Hands.

## FARTING-Crackers

Breeches.

## FASTNER

a Warrant.

## FASTNESS

Boggs.

## FAT

rich, as, A Fat Cull; a rich Fellow.

## FAULKNER

a Tumbler, a Juggler, a Shewer of Tricks, &c.

## FAYTORS

## or FATORS

A kind of Gypsies, pretending to tell People their Fate or Destiny, or what they were born to.

## FEATHER-bed-lane

any bad Road, but particularly that betwixt Dunchurch and Daintry. To Feather his nest, to inrich himself by indirect Means, or at the expence of others.

## FEINTING

an Attempt on one part of a House, or Road, &c. when their cheif Stress or Attempt lies in another.

## FEN

a Strumpet, or Bawd, a common prostitute.

## To FENCE

to spend, Fence his Hog, spend his Shilling.

## A FENCE

is also a Receiver and Securer of Stollen Goods.

## FENCING-Cully

the fame.

## FENCING-Ken

a Warehouse, where Stollen Goods are secured.

## FERME

a Hole.

## FERMERLY-Beggars

all those that have not the sham Sores or Cleymes.

## FERRET

a Parn-broker, or Tradesman that sells Goods upn Trust at excessive Rates, and then hunts them, and often throws them into Goal, where they perish for his Debt.

## FERRETED

cheated

## FETCH

a Trick or Wheedle. A meer Fetch.

## To FIB

to beat; Fib the Cove's Quarron in the Rompad, for the Lour in his Bung. Beat the Man in the Highway for the Money in his Purse.

## FIDDLE

a Writ to Arrest.

## FIDLERS-Pay

Thanks and Wine.

## To FILCH

to Steal.

## A FILCH

a Staff, with a Hole thro' and a Spike at the Bottom, to pluck Cloaths from a Hedge or any thing out of a Casement.

## FILCHERS

the same with ANGLERS.

## FILCHING-Cove

a Man-Thief.

## FILCHING-Mort

a Woman-Thief.

## To FILE

to Rob, or Cheat.

## A FILE

## or Bungnipper

Pick-pockets, who generally go in Company with a Rogue, called a Bulk or Bulker, whose Business 'tis to jostle the Person against the Wall, while the File picks his Pocket; and generally gives it to an Adam-tiler, who scowers off with it.

## FILE-Cloy

a Pick-Pocket, Thief or Rogue; the same as FILE.

## FIRE-Ship

a Pockey Whore.

## FLAG

a Groat; The Flag of Defiance is out, (among the Tarrs) the Fellow's Face is very red, and he is drunk.

## FLAM

a Trick or Sham Story.

## FLANDERS-Fortunes

of small Substance.

## FLANDERS-Pieces

Pictures that look fair at a Distance, but coarser near at Hand.

## FLAP DRAGON

a Clap or Pox.

## FLASH

a Peruke. Rum Flash, a long, full, high-priz'd Wig. Queer-Flash, a sorry weather-beaten Wig.

## FLASH-Ken

a House were Thieves use, and are connived at.

## FLAW'D

Drunk.

## To FLEECE

to Rob, Plunder or Strip.

## FLESH Broker

a Match-maker; also a Bawd.

## FLIBUSTERS

West Indian Pirates, or Buckaneers, Free-booters.

## FLICKER

a Drinking Glass. The Flicker snapt, the Glass is broken. Nim the Flicker. Steal the Glass. Rum Flicker, a large Glass or Rummer. Queer Flicker, a green or ordinary Glass.

## FLICKING

to cut, cutting, as, Flick me some Panom and Cossam; Cut me some Bread and Cheese. And, Flick the Peter, cut off the Cloak-bag or Portmanteau.

## FLOGG

to Whip

## FLOGG'D

severely lash'd.

## FLOGG'D at the Tumbler

whipt at the Cart's Arse.

## FLOGGING

a naked Woman's whipping with Rods an old (usually) and (sometimes) a young Letcher. The Prancer drew the Queer Cove, at the Crop-pin of the Rotan, through the Rum Pads of the Runville, and was Flogg'd by the Rum Cove, i. e. The Rogue was dragg'd at the Cart's tail through the chief Streets of London, and was soundly whipt by the Hangman.

## FLOGGING-Cove

the Beadle, or Whipper in Bridewell, or any such Place.

## FLOGGING-Cully

an old Letcher, who, to stimulate himself to Venery, causes himself to be whipp'd with Rods.

## FLOGGING-Stake

a whipping Post.

## FLORENCE

a Wench that is touz'd and ruffled.

## FLUSH in the Pocket

full of Money. The Cull is Flush in the Fob, the Spark's Pocket is well lin'd with Money.

## FLUSTER'D

Drunk.

## FLUTE

the Recorder of London, or of any other Town.

## FLYERS

Shoes.

## FLYING Camps

Beggars plying in Bodies at Funerals.

## FOB

a Cheat, or Trick.

## FOB off

to cheat or deceive.

## FOG

Smoke.

## FOGUS

Tobacco. Tip me a Gage of Fogus, Give me a Pipe of Tobacco.

## FOOTMAN's Mawn'd

an artificial Sore made with unslak'd Lime, Soap, an the Rust of old Iron, on the Back of a Beggar's Hand, as if hurt by the Bite or Kick of a Horse.

## FOOT-Pads

## or LOW Pads

a Crew of Villains, who rob on Foot, some of them using long Poles or Staves, with an Iron Hook at the End, with which they either pull Gentlemen from their Horses, or knock them down: At other Times, they skulk under Hedges or behind Banks in the Road, and suddenly starting out from their Covert, one seizes the Bridle, while the other dismounts the Passenger: and so rob, and often murder him.

## FORMAN of the Jury

one that engrosses all the Talk to himself.

## FORK

a Pick-pocket. Lets Fork him; Let us pick that Man's Pocket. It is done by thrusting the Fingers, strait, stiff, open and very quick into the Pocket, and so closing them, hook what can be held between them.

## A FORK

is also used for a Spendthrift.

## FORLORN-Hope

losing Gamesters.

## FORTUNE-Hunters

Irishmen, Pursuers of rich Heiresses, &c. to obtain them in Marriage. A Creature of Fortune, one that lives by his Wit.

## FORTUNE-Tellers

the Judges of Life and Death.

## FOUNDLING

a Child dropt in the Streets for the Parish to keep.

## A FOX

a sharp, cunning Fellow.

## FOXED

Drunk.

## FOYST

a Cheat, a Rogue.

## FRATERS

such as beg with sham Patents or Briefs for Spitals, Prisons, Fires, Innundations, &c.

## FREE-Booters

lawless Robbers, and Plunderers; also Soldiers serving for that Privilege without Pay, Inroaders.

## FREEHOLDER

he whose Wife goes with him to the Alehouse.

## FREEZE

a thin, small, hard Cyder, much used by Vintners and Coopers in parting their Wines, to lower the Price of them, and to advance their Gain. A Freezing Vintner, a vintner that balderdashes his Wine.

## FRENCH Gout

the Pox. A Blow with a French Faggot stick, when the Nose is fallen by the Pox.

## FRENCHIFIED

clapt or Poxt.

## FRIGOT well rigged

a Woman well drest and genteel.

## FROE

for Vrowe, (Dutch) a Wife, Mistress, or Whore, Brush to your Froe (or Blos) and wheedle for Crap, whip to your Mistress, and speak her fair to give, or lend you some Money.

## FROG-Landers

Dutchmen.

## FRUMMAGEMM'D

choaked, strangled, or hanged.

## FRUMP

a dry Bob, or Jest.

## FUDDLE

Drink. This is rum Fuddle, this is excellent Tipple.

## FUDDLE-Cap

a Drunkard.

## FUN

a Cheat, or slippery Trick; What do you fun me? Do you think to sharp or trick me? He put the fun upon the Cull, he sharped the Fellow.

## FUN

is also used for the Backside; as, I'll kick your Fun, i. e. I'll kick your Breech. Likewise for Game of Diversion; as We had rare Fun with him.

## FUNK

Tobacco Smoak.

## FUR-Men

Aldermen.

## FUSSOCKS

as A meer Fussocks, a lazy fat wench. A fat Fussocks, a fat fulsom, strapping Woman.

## FUSTILUGGS

a fulsom, beastly, nasty Woman.