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Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.Henley, William Ernest

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Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

Name: Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.
Author: Henley, William Ernest

Henley, William Ernest

English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries; Slang -- Dictionaries

1834. W. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, p. 51 (ed. 1864). I’m as dry as a
    sandbed. Famous wine this—beautiful tipple—better than all your red
    fustian. Ah, how poor Sir Piers used to like it!

Fustilarian, subs. (old).—A low fellow; a common scoundrel.

    1598. Shakspeare, 2 Henry IV., II., 1. Away, you scullion! you
    rampallian! you fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe.

Fustilug (or Fustilugs), subs. (old).—A piece of grossness, male or
female; a coarse and dirty Blowzalinda; a foul slut; a fat stinkard.

    1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew. Fustiluggs, a Fulsom,
    Beastly, Nasty Woman.

    1739. Junius (quoted in Encly. Dict.). You may daily see such
    fustilugs walking in the streets, like so many tuns.

    1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

Futter, verb. (venery).—To copulate. Fr., foutre. [A coinage of Sir. R.
Burton’s, who makes continual use of it in the Thousand Nights and a
Night.] For synonyms, see Greens and Ride. Also to do a futter.

    1885. Burton, Thousand Nights, II., 332. Eating and drinking and
    futtering for a year of full twelve months.

    1890. Burton, Priapeia, Ep. xii. Thee, my girl, I shalt futter.

Future, to deal in futures, verb. phr. (Stock Exchange).—To speculate
for a rise or fall.

    1862. Globe, 1 Dec. He deals in futures, i.e., speculates in cotton
    with Stock Exchange folks, or speculates in securities.

Fuzz, verb. (old).—1. ‘To shuffle cards minutely; also to change the
pack.’ [Grose.]

2. (old).—To be, or to make, drunk.

    1685. Life of Amb. Wood, 14 July. Came home well fuzd.

Fuzziness, subs. (old).—The condition of being in drink. Hence
blurredness; incoherence; bewilderment.

Fuzzy, adj. (common).—1. Drunk. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed.
Hence blurred (as a picture); tangled; incoherent or inconsequent.

    1876. Hindley, Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, p. 324. Her
    husband or any other man might have drunk six glasses, with no more
    hurt than just making him a little fuzzy.

2. (popular).—Rough; as in a fuzzy head; a fuzzy cloth; a fuzzy bit (=
a full-grown wench); a fuzzy carpet; etc.

Fuzzy-wuzzy, subs. (military). A Soudanese tribesman.

    1890. Rudyard Kipling, National Observer, 8 Mar., p. 438, col. 1.
    So ’ere’s to you Fuzzy-wuzzy And your ’ome in the Soudan, You’re a
    pore benighted ’eathen but a first-class fighting man; And ’ere’s
    to you Fuzzy-wuzzy with your ’ay-rick ’ead of ’air, You big, black
    bouncing beggar, for you bruk a British square.

Fye-buck, subs. (old).—A sixpence. For synonyms, see Bender.

    1781. G. Parker, View of Society, II., 56. You give a shilling to
    buy a comb, for which he gives sixpence, so works you for another
    fye-buck.

    1885. Household Words, 20 June, p. 155. ‘Buck’ is most likely a
    corruption of fye-buck, a slang name for sixpence, which is now
    almost, if not altogether, obsolete.

Fylche.—See Filch.

Fyst.—See Foist.

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Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

Henley, William Ernest

English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries; Slang -- Dictionaries

1834. W. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, p. 51 (ed. 1864). I’m as dry as a
    sandbed. Famous wine this—beautiful tipple—better than all your red
    fustian. Ah, how poor Sir Piers used to like it!

Fustilarian, subs. (old).—A low fellow; a common scoundrel.

    1598. Shakspeare, 2 Henry IV., II., 1. Away, you scullion! you
    rampallian! you fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe.

Fustilug (or Fustilugs), subs. (old).—A piece of grossness, male or
female; a coarse and dirty Blowzalinda; a foul slut; a fat stinkard.

    1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew. Fustiluggs, a Fulsom,
    Beastly, Nasty Woman.

    1739. Junius (quoted in Encly. Dict.). You may daily see such
    fustilugs walking in the streets, like so many tuns.

    1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

Futter, verb. (venery).—To copulate. Fr., foutre. [A coinage of Sir. R.
Burton’s, who makes continual use of it in the Thousand Nights and a
Night.] For synonyms, see Greens and Ride. Also to do a futter.

    1885. Burton, Thousand Nights, II., 332. Eating and drinking and
    futtering for a year of full twelve months.

    1890. Burton, Priapeia, Ep. xii. Thee, my girl, I shalt futter.

Future, to deal in futures, verb. phr. (Stock Exchange).—To speculate
for a rise or fall.

    1862. Globe, 1 Dec. He deals in futures, i.e., speculates in cotton
    with Stock Exchange folks, or speculates in securities.

Fuzz, verb. (old).—1. ‘To shuffle cards minutely; also to change the
pack.’ [Grose.]

2. (old).—To be, or to make, drunk.

    1685. Life of Amb. Wood, 14 July. Came home well fuzd.

Fuzziness, subs. (old).—The condition of being in drink. Hence
blurredness; incoherence; bewilderment.

Fuzzy, adj. (common).—1. Drunk. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed.
Hence blurred (as a picture); tangled; incoherent or inconsequent.

    1876. Hindley, Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, p. 324. Her
    husband or any other man might have drunk six glasses, with no more
    hurt than just making him a little fuzzy.

2. (popular).—Rough; as in a fuzzy head; a fuzzy cloth; a fuzzy bit (=
a full-grown wench); a fuzzy carpet; etc.

Fuzzy-wuzzy, subs. (military). A Soudanese tribesman.

    1890. Rudyard Kipling, National Observer, 8 Mar., p. 438, col. 1.
    So ’ere’s to you Fuzzy-wuzzy And your ’ome in the Soudan, You’re a
    pore benighted ’eathen but a first-class fighting man; And ’ere’s
    to you Fuzzy-wuzzy with your ’ay-rick ’ead of ’air, You big, black
    bouncing beggar, for you bruk a British square.

Fye-buck, subs. (old).—A sixpence. For synonyms, see Bender.

    1781. G. Parker, View of Society, II., 56. You give a shilling to
    buy a comb, for which he gives sixpence, so works you for another
    fye-buck.

    1885. Household Words, 20 June, p. 155. ‘Buck’ is most likely a
    corruption of fye-buck, a slang name for sixpence, which is now
    almost, if not altogether, obsolete.

Fylche.—See Filch.

Fyst.—See Foist.

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Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

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