fattyma; fubsy; fat Jack of the bonehouse; fat-lips; flanderkin; fustiluggs (Burton); fussock; gorbelly; grampus; gotch-guts; grand-guts (Florio); gulche (Florio); gullyguts; gundigutts; guts; guts-and-
- stomach; guts-and-garbage;
guts-to-sell; hoddy-doddy; humpty-dumpty; hogshead; hopper-arse; Jack Weight; loppers; lummox; paunch; pod; porpoise; pot-guts; princod; pudding-belly; puff-guts; ribs; 'short-and-thick-
- like-a-Welshman's-cock'; slush-bucket;
sow (a fat woman); spud; squab; studgy-guts; tallow-guts; tallow-merchant; thick-in-the- middle; tripes; tripes and trulli-
- bubs; tubs; waist; water-butt;
walking ninepin; whopper.
French Synonyms. Un gros bajaf (popular); un bout de cul (popular); un bas de plafond, or de cul (popular); un brasset (= a tall, stout man); un berdouillard.
Spanish Synonym. Angelon de retablo (generally applied to a pot-bellied child).
Forty-jawed, adj. (colloquial).—
Excessively talkative.
Forty-lunged, adj. (colloquial).
—Stentorian; given to shouting;
leather-lunged (q.v.).
Forty-rod or Forty-rod Lightning,
subs. phr. (American).—
Whiskey; specifically, spirit of
so fiery a nature that it is calculated
to kill at Forty Rods'
distance, i.e., on sight. Cf., Rot-
- gut. For synonyms, see Drinks
and Old man's milk. Cf., Florio (1598), Catoblepa, 'a serpent in India so venomous that with his looke he kils a man a mile off.'
1884. M. Twain, Huck. Finn, ch. v., p. 36. He got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion, and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod.
Forty-twa, subs. (Scots).—A common
jakes, or bogshop (q.v.).—in
Edinburgh: 'so called from its
accommodating that number of
persons at once' (Hotten). [Long
a thing of the past.]
Forty Winks, subs. phr. (colloquial).—A
short sleep or nap.
See Dog's Sleep.
1866. G. Eliot, Felix Holt, ch. xliii. She was prevented by the appearance of old Mr. Transome, who since his walk had been having 'forty-winks' on the sofa in the library.
1871. Egan. Finish to Tom and Jerry, p. 87. On uncommanly big gentlemen, told out, taking forty-winks.
[Forty is often used to signify an indefinite number; cf., Shakespeare's usage, 'I could beat forty of them' (Cor. iii., 1); 'O that the slave had forty thousand lives' (Othello iii., 1); 'forty thousand brothers' (Hamlet, v., 1); 'The Humour of Forty Fancies' (Taming of the Shrew); and Jonson 'Some forty boxes' (Silent Woman).]
Fossed, ppl. adj. (American
thieves').—Thrown; cf., [foss =
a ditch].
Fossick, verb (Australian miners').
—To work an abandoned claim,
or to wash old dirt; hence to
search persistently. [Halliwell: =
to take trouble, but cf., fosse, a
ditch or excavation.] Also fossicking
= a living got as aforesaid;
fossicker = a man that
works abandoned claims; fossicking
about = (American)
shinning around, or in England
ferreting (q.v.).
1870. Notes and Queries, 4 S., vi., p. 3.
