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- Fliar, 173, Cu. laugh heartily, fleer, N. flira, to grin. Jam. "to gibe, taunt," a "fleering tell-tale."—Shak.
- Flings, 68, kicks up the heels.
"She sat an' she grat, an' she flate an' she flang"
- Flit, 70, remove, M. E. flitten. Da. flytte—conn. with fleet
- Flittermouse, 182, Cu. Ger. Fliedermaus
- Foal, 20, Go. fula
- Foarrie, 132, farrow, ferry (Bu.), cow, Du. verre-koe, ceased to bear, Fl. verroe-koe (16th c.)
- Fode, 18, in ballads, a man. Jam. "foode, feode, a man."
- Fog, 92, 149, moss; unknown or.: fjugg, Shet. airy stuff
- Foggie-toddler, fuggy-, 122, 140, 149, small, yellow bumble-bee, that toddles among dry moss—fog moss, foggie-bee—Jam.
- Fondness for diminutives, 195
- Foo, 40, Ab. who
- Foogie, fugie, 128, 151, one beaten in a fight, Lat. fugio, to flee—relic of school cock-fights, fuga, flight (law Lat.); Bu. to play truant—"The twa loons fugiet the squeel an' geed awa t' the widds, an' hairriet craws' nests a' day."—Gregor
- Fool, 20, 81, 111, fowl, Go. fugls, bird
- Foorsday, 39, Sc. dial.
- Foot-pad, 167, path, Cu.
- "Fork and knife," 92
- For-hoo, 33, to forsake; for-how, O. E. for-hogian, for, reversing, and hogian, to think, care
"And the merle and the mavis for-hoo't their young."—"Qu.'s Wake."
- Forrat, 167, Qu. forrit, Sc. forrard
- Fother, 18, E. to stop a leak by covering it with a sail, Go. fodr, a sheath, conn. with faths, a lord (cf. food, feed), O. Teut. *fothro, a sheath, O. E. fodor, Du. voedr. Kl. says "two different roots are confused in futter (Ger.) *Go. fodjan, feed, food, and Go. fodr, a sheath." See faths.
- Four-square, 92, square
- Fousom, 153, fulsome, offensive in smell
- Fouthie, 171
- Fowersom, 176
- Foy, 205, a feast, Shet., Ic. fog-und
- Fozie, 85, 149, soft, Du. voos, N. fos, L. Ger. fussig, spongy
- Frain, 31, 56, complain, ask, O. E. frayne, freyne, fregnan, O. N. fregna. Go. fraihnan, Ger. fragen. Jam. fryne, to fret from ill-humour, frynin. Not in N. E. D.
- Fraising, 34, 153. N. E. D. has frais, to creak, Sw. frasa, to rustle, fraise, a fuss, commotion, Go. fraisith, teniptest
"He may indeed, for ten or fifteen days,
Mak meikle o' ye, wi' an unco fraise."
Allan Ramsay.
- Fra-itan, 56, to eat up, Ger. fressen, E. fret, O. E. fretan, Du. vreten
- Fraiw, 48, Go. seed, fry, spawn, Ic. frae. Da. frö
- Frake, 85, a wheedler; fraik, s. v. fond discourse; fraikin, 140, 153. Not in N. E. D.
- Frammelt, 147. See thrammelt, of which this is a var.
- Frauja (masc), 22, 85, 205, Go.=master of the house, Du. vrouw, Ger. Frau; or. sense, "the first" in the house; cf. Ger. Fürst, O. N. freyr. Go. *fraujis (fern.) fraujo, Ic. Freya in our Friday. Distinguishes Our Lord in Go. Gospels. See free
- Fra-was, 56, Go. pret. of fra-wis-an to spend; was; Ger. war; or. sense, to stay in a place
- Freck, frack, 85, Orc. weak, delicate, O. E. free, Ger. frech, insolent, O. N. frekr, greedy. Go. friks
- Free, 22, 56, ballad term. O. E. fréo, O. Fr. frî, Du. vrijer, a wooer, O. N. fri-r, Go. frei-s, frijon, to love, "dear," of kindred, a free man, E. friend. See freen
- Freen, freend, 56, 127, friend, A. S. fréond, Go. frijonds, pres. part.; from frijon, to love; cf. Lat. amicus, amare; Du. vriend: or. kinsman, Du. vrijer, a lover. See free
- Freits, freit, 122, 148, 163, anything superstitiously cherished, often a
