FOOTMAN'S MAWND. An artificial sore made with un slaked lime, soap, and the rust of old iron, on the back of a beggar's hand, as if hurt by the bite or kick of a horse. FOOTY DESPICABLE. A footy fellow, a despicable fellow; from the French foutüe. FORE FOOT,OTPAW. Give us your fore foot; give us your hand. FOREMAN OF THE JURY. One who engrosses all the talk to himself, or speaks for the rest of the company. FORK. A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his pocket. The newest and most dexterous way, which is, to thrust the fingers strait, stiff, open, and very quick, into the pocket, and so closing them, hook what can ⚫ be held between them.' N. B. This was taken from a book written many years ago: doubtless the art of picking pockets, like all others, must have been much improved since that time. FORLORN HOPE. A gamester's last stake. FORTUNE HUNTERS. Indigent men, seeking to enrich themselves by marrying a woman of fortune. FORTUNE TELLER, or CUNNING MAN. A judge, who tells every prisoner his fortune, lot or doom. To go before the fortune teller, lambskin men, or conjuror; to be tried at an assize. See LAMBSKIN MEN. FOUL. To foul a plate with a man, to take a dinner with him. FOUL-MOUTHED. Abusive. FOUNDLING. A child dropped in the streets, and found, and educated at the parish expence. FOUSIL. The name of a public house, where the Eccen-. trics assemble in May's Buildings, St. Martin's Lane. Fox. A sharp, cunning fellow. Also an old term for a sword, probably a rusty one, or else from its being dyed red with blood; some say this name alluded to certain swords of remarkable good temper, or metal, marked with the figure of a fox, probably the sign, or rebus, of the maker. Fox's PAW.. The vulgar pronunciation of the French words faux pás. He made a confounded fox's paw. FOXED. Intoxicated. FOXEY. Rank. Stinking. FOXING A BOOT. Mending the foot by capping it. FOYSTED IN. Words or passages surreptitiously interpolated or inserted into a book or writing. FRATERS. Vagabonds who beg with sham patents, or briefs, for hospitals, fires, inundations, &c. FREE, Free of fumblers hall; a saying of one who cannot get his wife with child. FREE FREE AND EASY JOHNS. A Society which meet at the Hole in the Wall, Fleet-street, to tipple porter, and sing baw dry. FREE BOOTERS. Lawless robbers and plunderers: originally soldiers who served without pay, for the privilege of plun dering the enemy. FREEHOLDER. He whose wife accompanies him to the alehouse. FREEMAN'S QUAY. Free of expence. Tolush at Freeman's Quay; to drink at another's cost. FREEZE. A thin, small, hard cider, 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 who balderdashes his wine. FRENCH CREAM. Brandy; so called by the old tabbies and dowagers when drank in their tea. FRENCH DISEASE. The venereal disease, said to have been imported from France. French gout; the same. He suffered by a blow over the snout with a French faggot-stick; i. e. he lost his nose by the pox. FRENCH LEAVE. To take French leave; to go off without taking leave of the company: a saying frequently applied to persons who have run away from their creditors. FRENCHIFIED. Infected with the venereal disease. The mort is Frenchified: the wench is infected. FRESH MILK. Cambridge new comers to the university. FRESHMAN. One just entered a member of the university. 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. TO FRIG. Figuratively used for trifling. 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. TO FRISK. Used by thieves to signify searching a person whom they have robbed. Blast his eyes! frisk him. FROE, OF VROE. A woman, wife, or mistress. Brush to your froe, or bloss, and wheedle for crop; run to your mistress, and sooth and coax her out of some money. FROGLANDER. A Dutchman. Dutch. FROSTY FROSTY FACE. One pitted with the small pox. FROG'S WINE. Gin. FRUITFUL VINE. A woman's private parts, i. e. that has flowers every month, and bears fruit in nine months. FRUMMAGEMMED. hanged. Cant. Choaked, strangled, suffocated, or 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 drunk ard. FUDGE. Nonsense. 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 OF EMPTINESS. Jocular term for empty. FULL MARCH. The Scotch greys are in full march by the crown office; the lice are crawling down his head. FUMBLER. An old or impotent man. To fumble, also means to go awkwardly about any work, or manual ope ration. FUN. A cheat, or trick. Do you think to fun me out of it? Do you think to cheat me?---Also the breech, perhaps from being the abbreviation of fundament. I'll kick your fun. Cant. TO FUNK. To use an unfair motion of the hand in plumping at taw. Schoolboy's term. FUNK. To smoke; figuratively, to smoke or stink through fear. I was in a cursed funk. Tofunk the cobler; a school. boy's trick, performed with assafoetida and cotton, which are stuffed into a pipe: the cotton being lighted, and the bowl of the pipe covered with a coarse handkerchief, the smoke is blown out at the small end, through the crannies of a cobler's stall. FURMEN. Aldermen. FURMITY, OF FROMENTY. Wheat boiled up to a jelly. To simper like a furmity kettle: to smile, or look merry about the gills. Fuss. A confusion, a hurry, an unnecessary to do about trifles. FUSSOCK. A lazy fat woman. An old fussock; a frowsy old woman. FUSTIAN. Bombast language, Red fustian; port wine. FUSTY LUGGS. A beastly, sluttish woman. G To To Fuzz. To shuffle cards minutely: also, to change the pack. GAB, or Gos. The mouth. Gift of the gab; a facility of speech, nimble tongued eloquence. To blow the gab; to confess, or peach. GAB, or GOB, STRING. A bridle. GAD-SO. An exclamation said to be derived from the Italian word cazzo. GAFF. A fair. The drop coves maced the joskins at the gaff; the ring-droppers cheated the countryman at the fair. To GAFF. To game by tossing up halfpence. GAG. An instrument used chiefly by housebreakers and thieves, for propping open the mouth of a person robbed, thereby to prevent his calling out for assistance. GAGE. A quart pot, or a pint; also a pipe. Cant. GAGGERS. High and Low. Cheats, who by sham pretences, and wonderful stories of their sufferings, impose on the credulity of well meaning people. See RUM GAGGER. GALIMAUFREY. A hodgepodge made up of the remnants and scraps of the larder. GALL. His gall is not yet broken; a saying used in prisons of a man just brought in, who appears dejected. GALLEY. Building the galley; a game formerly used at sea, in order to put a trick upon a landsman, or fresh-water sailor. It being agreed to play at that game, one sailor personates the builder, and another the merchant or contractor: the builder first begins by laying the keel, which consists of a number of men laid all along on their backs, one after another, that is, head to foot; he next puts in the ribs or knees, by making a number of men sit feet to feet, at right angles to, and on each side of, the keel: he now fixing on the person intended to be the object of the joke, observes he is a fierce-looking fellow, and fit for the lion; he accordingly places him at the head, his arms being held or locked in by the two persons next to him, representing the ribs. After several other dispositions, the builder delivers over the galley to the contractor as complete: but he, among other faults and objections, tions, observes the lion is not gilt, on which the builder or one of his assistants, runs to the head, and dipping a mop in the excrement, thrusts it into the face of the lion. GALLEY FOIST. A city barge, used formerly on the lord mayor's day, when he was sworn in at Westminster. GALLIED. Hurried, vexed, over-fatigued, perhaps like a galley slave. GALLIGASKINS. Breeches. GALLIPOT. A nick name for an apothecary, GALLOPER. A blood horse. A hunter. The toby gill clapped his bleeders to his galloper and tipped the straps the double. The highwayman spurred his horse and got away from the ollicers. GALLOWS BIRD. A thief, or pickpocket; also one that associates with them. GAMBS. Thin, ill-shaped legs: a corruption of the French word jambes. Farcy gambs; sore or swelled legs. GAMBADOES. Leathern cases of stiff leather, used in Devonshire instead of boots; they are fastened to the saddle, and admit the leg, shoe and all: the name was at first jocularly given. GAMBLER. A sharper, or tricking gamester. GAME. Any mode of robbing. The toby is now a queer game; to rob on the highway is now a bad mode of acting. This observation is frequently made by thieves; the roads being now so well guarded by the horse patrole; and gentlemen travel with little cash in their pockets. GAME. Bubbles or pigeons drawn in to be cheated.. Also, at bawdy-houses, lewd women. Mother have you any game; mother, have you any girls? To die ganie; to suffer at the gallows without shewing any signs of fear or repentance. Game pullet; a young whore, or forwardgirl in the way of becoming one. GAMON. To humbug. To deceive. To tell lies. What rum gamon the old file pitched to the flat; how finely the knowing old fellow humbugged the fool. GAMON AND PATTER. Common place talk of any profession; as the gamon and patter of a horse-dealer, sailor, &c. GAN. The mouth or lips. Cant. GANDER MONTH. That month in which a man's wife lies in: wherefore, during that time, husbands plead a sort of indulgence in matters of gallantry. GANG. A company of men, a body of sailors, a knot of G 2 thieves |