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. 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. FURMEN. Aldermen. FURMITY, or 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. TO FUZZ. To shuffle cards minutely: also, to change the pack. GAB, or GOB. 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. GABBY. A foolish fellow. 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. GAGE, or FOGUS. A pipe of tobacco. 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.