_Ferret_, a pawnbroker or tradesman, that sells goods to young spendthrifts upon trust, at excessive rates, and then hunts them without mercy, and often throws them into jail, where they perish for their debt. _Fidlam Ben_, general thieves; called also St. Peter’s sons, having every finger a fish-hook. _Flag_, a groat. _Flash_, a periwig. _Flaybottomist_, a bum-thrasher, or schoolmaster. _Flick_, old-fashioned, or sly. _Flicker_, a drinking-glass. _Flicking_, to cut, cutting; as flick me some panea and cassan, cut me some bread and cheese. _Flute_, the recorder of London, or any other town. _Flyers_, shoes or boots. _Fogus_, tobacco: tip me a gage of fogus; give me a pipe of tobacco. _Froglanders_, Dutchmen. _Frummagemmed_, choked, strangled, or hanged. _Furmen_, aldermen. _Gaberlunzie_, a beggar. _Gan_, a mouth. _Gans_, the lips. _Gage_, a liquor pot, or a tobacco pipe. _George_, a half-crown piece. _Gem_, a fire. _Gentry cove_, a gentleman. _Gibberish_, the cant language of thieves and gipseys, called pedlars’s French, St. Giles’s Greek, and the Flash tongue: also the mystic language of Geber, used by chemists. Gibberish likewise means a sort of disguised language, formed by inserting any consonant between each syllable of an English word; in which case it is called the gibberish of the letter inserted; if _f_, it is the _f_ gibberish; if _g_, the _g_ gibberish; as in the sentence, How do you do? Howg dog youg dog? _Gigg_, a nose: snitchell his gigg; fillip his nose: grunter’s gigg; a hog’s snout. Gigg is also a high one-horse chaise. _Gipseys_, a set of wandering vagrants found in the country. When a fresh recruit is admitted into this fraternity, he is to take the following oath, administered by the principal maunder, after going through the annexed forms:— First, a new name is given him, by which he is ever after to be called; then standing up in the middle of the assembly, and directing his face to the dimber damber, or principal man of the gang, he repeats the following oath, which is dictated to him by some experienced member of the fraternity: I, Crank Cuffin, do swear to be a true brother, and that I will in all things obey the commands of the great tawney prince, and keep his council, and not divulge the secrets of my brethren. I will never leave nor forsake the company, but observe and keep all the times of appointment, either by day or night in every place whatever. I will not teach any one to cant, nor will I disclose any of our mysteries to them.