provincial f-words from the 14th century

bros, i started the f-word series as a way of showcasing some choice morsels from specialised dictionaries. i chose words that start with f partly because of my infantile preoccupation with labiodental fricatives but also because enabling limits on my search meant that i would have more free time to hang out with my buddies at applebee’s and talk about witty hollister t-shirts. this system had been going swell until my good friend orson, dropped this onto my desk and my world shattered.

its full title is: a dictionary of arcahic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs, from the fourteenth century (1850)—and it is worthy of a 5 part series within a series.

[part the first: FADGY to FELSH]

• FADGY. Corpulent; unwieldy
• FAEGANG. A gang of beggars
• FAFF. To move violently
• FAIR-TRO-DAYS. Daylight
• FAITOUR. An idle lazy fellow; a scoundrel; a flatterer; Hence, a general term of reproach
• FALDORE. A trap-door
• FALLE. A mouse-trap
• FALLINGS. Dropped fruit
• FALLOWFORTH. A waterfall
• FAMBLE. To stutter, or murmur inarticulately
• FANGAST. Fit for marriage, said of a maid
• FANOM-WATER. The acrimonious discharge from the sores of cattle
• FANTICKLES. Freckles
• FARAND. Used in composition for advancing towards, or being ready. Fighting farand: ready for fighting. Farand-man: a traveller or itinerant merchant
• FARREL. The fourth part of a circular oatcake, the division being made by a cross
• FARTHINGS. Flattened peas
• FASGUNTIDE (1) Trouble; care; anxiety; fatigue (2) The tops of turnips
• FASYL. A flaw in cloth
• FEANT. A fool
• FEATLET. Four pounds of butter
• FEELDY. Grassy
• FEER. to run a little way back for the better advantage of leaping forwards
• FELSH. To renovate a hat