A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew in its several tribes of gypsies, beggers, thieves, cheats, &c. : $b With an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c.B. E.
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A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew in its several tribes of gypsies, beggers, thieves, cheats, &c. : $b With an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c.
B. E.
English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries; Romanies -- Languages
_Fag’d_, c. Beaten.
_Fag the Bloss_, c. bang the Wench.
_Fag the Fen_, c. drub the Whore.
_Faggot the Culls_, c. Bind the Men.
_Faggots_, Men Muster’d for Souldiers, not yet Listed.
_Fair Roe-Buck_, the Fifth Year.
_Fair Speech_, or fine Words. _Fair-spoken_, or Courteous. _A Fair Day_,
or Fair Weather. _Fair in the Cradle, and foul in the Saddle_, a pretty
Boy, and a hard-favor’d Man. _Soft and Fair goes far_; or not more Haste
than good Speed. _Fair and far off_; wide of the Mark. _You have made a
Fair Speech_, said in derision of one that spends many Words to little
purpose. _A Fair or Market for Beasts._ _A Day after the Fair_, a Day too
late, of one that has out-stayed his Markets.
_Fall-a-bord_, fall on and Eat heartily.
_Fallacies_, Cheats, Tricks, Deceipts.
_Falter_, to fail or more particularly a failure, or Trip of the Tongue,
entangled with the Palsy, produced also from excess of Drink, or Guilt.
_Famms_, c. Hands.
_Fambles_, c. Hands.
_Famble-cheats_, c. Gold-rings, or Gloves.
_Famgrasp_, c. to agree or make up a Difference. _Famgrasp the Cove_, c.
to agree with the Adversary.
_Family of Love_, Lewd Women, Whores; also a Sect.
_Fangs_, Beast-claws as Talons are of a Bird.
_Fanning_, or refreshing of the Trees or Woods with Wind. _Fanning_ or
refreshing of a Close Room, opening the Windows. _Fire-fanns_, little
Hand-Skreens for the Fire.
_Fantastick_, Whimsical, Freakish, or Capricious. _A Fantastick Dress_,
very particular, remarkable.
_Fardel_, a Bundle.
_Fardy_, for Ferdinando.
_Fare_, Hire; also a litter of Piggs.
_Farting-crackers_, c. Breeches.
_Fast-friends_, sure or trusty.
_Fastner_, c. a Warrant.
_Fastnesses_, Boggs.
_Fat_, the last landed, inned or stow’d of any sort of Merchandize
whatever, so called by the several Gangs of Water-side-Porters, _&c._
_Fat Cull_, c. a rich Fellow. _All the Fat is in the Fire_, of a
miscarriage or shrewd Turn. _Change of Pasture makes Fat Calves_, of him
that thrives upon mending his Commons.
_Faulkner_, c. see Tumbler, first Part.
_Faytors_, c. the Second (old) Rank of the Canting Crew.
_Feat_, strange, odd.
_Feats of Activity_, exercise, or Agility of Body in Tumbling, turning
through a Hoop, Running, Leaping, Vaulting, Wrestling, Pitching of the
Bar, Quoiting, _&c._ or Slights of Hand, Tricks, Legerdemain, _&c._
_Feats of Chivalry_, Exploits of War, Riding the great Horse, Tilting,
Tournaments, Running at the Ring, _&c._
_Feather-bed-lane_, any bad Road, but particularly that betwixt
_Dunchurch_ and _Daintrie_. _He has a Feather in his Cap_, a Periphrasis
for a Fool. _Play with a Feather_, of things that are gamesom and full of
Play, as Kittens and Kids. _To Feather his Nest_, to enrich himself by
indirect means, or at the Expence of others. _Fine Feathers make fine
Birds_, Gay Cloaths make fine Folks.
_Feble_, the narrowest Part of the Sword-blade nearest the Point.
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