Frog's Wine, subs. phr. (old).—Gin. For synonyms, see Drinks and Satin.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
Frolic, subs. (common).—A merry-*making.
1847. Robb. Squatter Life, p. 133. At all the frolicks round the country, Jess was hangin' onter that gal.
Frosty-face, subs. (old).—A pox-pitted
man. Grose (1785).
Front, verb (thieves').—To conceal
the operations of a pickpocket;
to cover (q.v.).
1879. J. W. Horsley in Macmillan's Mag., XL., 506. So my pal said, 'Front me (cover me), and I will do him for it.'
Front-attic (or -door, -garden,
-parlour, -room, or -window).
subs. phr. (venery).—The female
pudendum. For synonyms, see
Monosyllable. To have (or
do) a bit of front-door work
= to copulate.
1823. Bee, Dict. of the Turf, s.v. Mrs. Fubb's front-parlour (vide Tom Rees) is not to be mistaken for any part of any building.
Front-door Mat, subs. phr.
(venery).—The female pubic hair.
For synonyms, see Fleece.
Front-gut, subs. (venery).—The
female pudendum. For synonyms,
see Monosyllable.
Frontispiece, subs. (pugilists').—The
face. For synonyms, see
Dial.
1818. P. Egan, Boxiana, I., p. 221. Tyne put in right and left upon the Jew's Frontispiece two such severe blows, that Crabbe's countenance underwent a trifling change.
1845. Buckstone, Green Bushes, i., 1. It's a marcy my switch didn't come in contract with your iligant frontispiece.
1860. Chambers' Journal XIII., p. 368. His forehead is his frontispiece.
1864. A. Trollope, Sm. Ho. at Allington (1884), vol. ii., ch. V., p. 47. He said that he had had an accident—or rather, a row—and that he had come out of it with considerable damage to his frontispiece.
1891. Sporting Life, 28 Mar. It must be confessed that the ludicrous was attained when Griffiths subsequently appeared with a short black pipe in his distorted and battered frontispiece.
Front-windows, subs. (common).—1.
The eyes; also the face.
2. In sing. (venery).—The female pudendum. Cf., front-attic; and for synonyms, see Monosyllable.
Frost, subs. (common).—A complete
failure. Cf., Fr., un four
noir. Also un temps noir = a
blank interval; a prolonged silence
(as when an actor's memory fails
him).
1885. Saturday Review, 15 Aug., p. 218. He is an absolute and perfect frost.
1885. Bell's Life, 3 Jan., p. 3, col. 6. We regret we cannot write favorably concerning this matter, the affair being almost as big a frost athletically as it was financially.
1889. Star, 17 Jan. The pantomime was a dead frost.
2. (common).—A dearth of work; to have a frost = to be idle.
Froudacious, Froudacity, adj.
and subs. See quots.
1888. Colonies and India, 14 Nov. The word 'Froudacity,' invented by Mr. Darnell Davis in his able review of The Bow of Ulysses, recently published, has reached the height of popularity in the Ausralasian Colonies, where it has come into everyday use. In the Melbourne Assembly the other day an hon. member observed—speaking of some remarks made by a previous speaker—that he never heard
