(popular: = a cutter); un avaleur de charrettes fereés (popular); un mata (printers': from matador = a bull-fighter); un bousineur (popular: bousin = uproar, shindy); un bourreau de crânes (military): = a scull-destroyer; un bœufier (popular: = an ugly customer); un mauvais gas (familiar: from garçon); un homme qui a l'air de vouloir tout avaler (familiar: a man who looks as though he'd swallow the world); un croquet (popular).
Spanish Synonyms.—Perdonavidas; fierabras (fiera = a wild beast); botarate; macareno cacafuoco (= a shitfire).
Furk, Ferk, Firk, verb. (Winchester
College).—To expel; to
send (as on a message); to drive
away. Also to furk up and
furk down. [Old English
fercian, High German ferken,
Middle English to lead or send
away.]
Furmen, subs. (old).—Aldermen.
From their fur-trimmed robes.
1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Furmity-faced, adj. phr. (old).—White-faced
(furmity is
described by Grose as 'wheat
boiled to a jelly'). To simper
like a furmity kitten (Grose), see
Simper.
Furnish, verb. (common).—To fill
out; to improve in strength and
appearance.
Furniture Picture, subs. phr.
(artists').—A 'picture' sold not
as a piece of art but as a piece of
upholstery, such things being
turned out by the score, as pianos
are, or three-legged stools; the
worst and cheapest kind of pot-*boiler
(q.v.).
Furrow, subs. (venery). Also
Cupid's (or the One-ended)
furrow, etc.—The female
pudendum. For synonyms, see
Monosyllable. To draw a
straight furrow. See Draw.
To fall in the furrow, verb. phr. (venery).—To achieve emission.
To fail (or die) in the furrow, verb. phr. (venery).—To do a dry-bob (q.v.).
Furry Tail, subs. phr. (printers').—A
non-unionist; a rat (q.v.).
Specifically, a workman accepting
employment at less than 'Society'
wages. Cf., Dung, Flint, etc.
Further. I'll see you further
first, phr. (colloquial).—A
denial. I'll sooner die first
(q.v.).
1861-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor, i., p. 29. I gave a country lad 2d. to mind him (the donkey) in a green lane there. I wanted my own boy to do so, but he said, I'll see you further first. A London boy hates being by himself in a lone country part. He's afraid of being burked.
Fur Trade, subs. phr. (old).—Barristers.
1839. Reynolds, Pickwick Abroad, ch. xxvi. Let nobs in the fur trade hold their jaw, And let the jug be free.
Furze-Bush, subs. phr. (venery).The
female pubic hair. For
synonyms, see Fleece.
