FIDDLE FADDLE. Trifling discourse, nonsense. A mere fiddle faddle fellow; a trifier. FIDDLESTICK'S END. Nothing; the end of the ancient fiddlesticks ending in a point; hence metaphorically used to express a thing terminating in nothing. FIDGETS. He has got the fidgets; said of one that cannot sit long in a place. FIDLAM BEN. General thieves; called also St. Peter's sons, having every finger a fish-hook. CANT. FIDDLERS MONEY. All sixpences: sixpence being the usual sum paid by each couple, for music at country wakes and hops. Fiddler's fare; meat, drink, and money. Fiddler's pay; thanks and wine. FIELD LANE DUCK. A baked sheep's head. FIERI FACIAS. A red-faced man is said to have been served with a writ of fieri facias. FIGDEAN. To kill. FIGGER. A little boy put in at a window to hand out goods to the diver. See DIVER. FIGGING LAW. The art of picking pockets. CANT. FIGURE DANCER. One who alters figures on bank notes, converting tens to hundreds. FILCH, or FILEL. A beggar's staff, with an iron hook at the end, to pluck clothes from an hedge, or any thing out of a casement. Filcher; the same as angler. Filching cove; a man thief. Filching mort; a woman thief. FILE, FILE CLOY, or BUNGNIPPER. A pick pocket. To file; to rob or cheat. The file, or bungnipper, goes generally in company with two assistants, the adam tiler, and another called the bulk or bulker, Whose business it is to jostle the person they intend to rob, and push him against the wall, while the file picks his pocket, and gives'the booty to the adam tiler, who scours off with it. CANT. FIN. An arm. A one finned fellow; a man who has lost an arm. SEA PHRASE. FINE. Fine as five pence. Fine as a cow-t--d stuck with primroses. FINE. A man imprisoned for any offence. A fine of eighty-four months; a transportation for seven years. FINGER IN EYE. To put finger in eye; to weep: commonly applied to women. The more you cry the less you'll p-ss; a consolatory speech used by sailors to their doxies. It is as great a pity to see a woman cry, as to see a goose walk barefoot; another of the same kind. FINGER POST. A parson: so called, because he points out a way to others which he never goes himself. Like the finger post, he points out a way he has never been, and probably will never go, i.e. the way to heaven. FINISH. The finish; a small coffee-house in Coven Garden, market, opposite Russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called Carpenter's coffee-house. FIRING A GUN. Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the company, Hark! did you not hear a gun?--but now we are talking of a gun, I will tell you the story of one. TO FIRE A SLUG. To drink a dram. FIRE PRIGGERS. Villains who rob at fires under pretence of assisting in removing the goods.