Fug, verb (Shrewsbury School).—To stay in a stuffy room.
Fugel, verb. (venery).—To possess;
to have (q.v.).
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., i., 126. Who fugelled the Parson's fine Maid.
Fuggy, subs. (schoolboys').—A hot
roll.
Adj. (Shrewsbury School).—Stuffy.
Fugo, subs. (obsolete).—The rectum, or (Cotgrave) 'bung-hole.'
1720. Durfey, Pills, etc., vi., 247. This maid, she like a beast turned her fugo to the East.
Fulhams or Fullams, subs. (old).—Loaded dice; called 'high' or 'low' fulhams as they were intended to turn up high or low. Cƒ., gourds. [Conjecturally, because manufactured at Fulham, or because that village was a notorious resort of blacklegs.] For synonyms, see Uphills.
1594. Nashe, Unf. Traveller, in wks. v., 27. The dice of late are growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper alike, langrets, fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them will not affoord a man his dinner.
1596. Shakspeare. Merry Wives of Windsor, i., 3. Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd, and fullam holds, And high and low beguile the rich and poor.
1599. Jonson, Every Man out of His Hum., iii., 1. Car.: Who! he serve? 'sblood, he keeps high men, and low men, he! he has—fair living at Fullam. [Whalley's note in Gifford's Jonson, 'The dice were loaded to run high or low; hence they were called high men or low men, and sometimes high and low fullams. Called fullams either because F. was the resort of sharpers, or because they were chiefly made there.]
1664. Butler, Hudibras, Part II., C. i., 1. 642. But I do wonder you should chuse This way t' attack me with your muse, As one cut out to pass your tricks on, With fulhams of poetic fiction.
[Note in Dr. Nash's Ed., vol. I., p. 272 (Ed. 1835). 'That is, with cheats or impositions. Fulham was a cant word for a false die, many of them being made at that place.']
1822. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, ch. xxiii. Men talk of high and low dice, Fulhams and bristles . . . and a hundred ways of rooking besides.
2. (colloquial).—A sham; a make-believe (q.v.). [From sense 1.]
1664. Butler, Hudibras, ii., 1, Fulhams of poetic fiction.
Fulham Virgin, subs. phr. (colloquial).—A
fast woman. Cf.,
Bankside lady; Covent
Garden nun; St. John's Wood
vestal, etc.
Fulk, verb (old schoolboys').—To
use an unfair motion of the hand
in plumping at taw.—Grose.
Fulke, verb (venery).—To copulate.
[A euphemism suggested by Byron
in Don Juan, the first and last
words of which, so adepts tell
you, are 'I' and 'fulke.']
Fulker, subs. (old).—A pawnbroker.
For synonyms, see Uncle.
1566. Gascoigne, Supposes, ii., 3. The Fulker will not lend you a farthing upon it.
Full, adj. (colloquial).—1. Drunk.
For synonyms, see Drinks and
Screwed.
1888. Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. When he was full the police came and jugged.
2. (turf). Used by bookmakers to signify that they have laid all the money they wish against a particular horse.
Full-guts, subs. phr. (common).—A swag-bellied man or woman.
