Flying-jigger or Gygger, subs. (thieves’).—A turnpike gate. [Jigger = a door or gate.] 1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. 1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v. Flying-man, subs. (football).—A skirmisher good at taking, and running with, the ball. 1864. Eton School Days, ch. 23, p. 255. He possessed good wind, and was a very good ‘kick-off,’ and he could ‘bully’ a ball as well as any one. He was a little too heavy for ‘flying-man,’ but he made a decent ‘sidepost,’ and now and then he officiated as ‘corner.’ Flying-mare. See Flying-horse. Flying Pasty, subs. phr. (obsolete).—Excrement wrapped in paper and thrown over a neighbour’s wall. [Grose.] Flying-porter. See Flying cove. Flying-stationer, subs. (street).—A hawker of street ballads; a paperworker (q.v.), or running patterer (q.v.). Cf., croak. ‘Printed for the flying-stationer’ is the imprimatur on hundreds of broadsheets from the last century onwards. 1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. Ballad singers and hawkers of penny histories. 1851–61. H. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor, Vol. I, p. 228. That order or species of the pattering genus known as flying stationers, from the fact of their being continually on the move while describing the attractions of the ‘papers’ they have to sell. 1886. Athenæum, 31 July, p. 139. Scores of tracts were issued in the Newgate region, from Giltspur Street to Blowbladder Street, whence numbers of flying stationers drew their supplies long before either of the Catnachs were born. Flymy. Adj. (streets).—Knowing, fast (q.v.); roguish; sprightly. From Fly (q.v.). 1887. W. E. Henley, Villon’s Good Night. You flymy titters fond of flam. Fly-my-kite, subs. phr. (rhyming).—A light. Flymy-mess, to be in a flymy-mess, verb. phr. (military).—To be hungry and have nothing to eat. For synonyms, see peckish. Fly-slicer, subs. (common).—A cavalry-man: cf., Mudcrusher. French lancers are allumeurs de gaz, their weapons being likened to a lamplighter’s rod. 1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. Fly-slicers: Life-guardmen, from their sitting on horseback, under an arch, where they are frequently observed to drive away flies with their swords. Fly the Garter, subs. phr. (schoolboys’).—Leap-frog. 1863. G. A. Sala, Breakfast in Bed, Essay VIII., p. 187 (1864). He has very probably been playing fly-the-garter in the gutter instead of waiting his turn at the office. Fly-trap, subs. (common).—1. The mouth. For synonyms, see Potato trap. 2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable. Foaled, adj. (hunting).—Thrown from a horse. Fr., faire parache. Fob, or Fub, subs. (old).—1. A cheat; a trick; a swindle. To come the fob = to impose upon; to swindle; cf., come over. 1690. B. E., Dict. of the Canting Crew. Fob, c., a cheat trick. 1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, Fob, s.v.