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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

fawney rig

fawney

feague

feak

to feather one's nest

feather-bed lane

fee, faw, fum

feeder

feet

feint

fellow commoner

fen

to fence

fencing ken

ferme

fermerdy beggars

ferrara

ferret

fetch

feuterer

to fib

fice

foyse

fid of tobacco

fiddle faddle

fiddlestick's end

fidgets

fidlam ben

fiddlers money

field lane duck

fieri facias

figdean

figger

figging law

figure dancer

filch

filel

file

file cloy

bungnipper

fin

fine

finger in eye

finger post

finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.

firing a gun

to fire a slug

fire priggers

fire ship

fire shovel

fish

fit

five shillings

fizzle

flabagasted

flabby

flag

flam

flap dragon

to flare

flash

flash panneys

flash song

to flash the hash

flash ken

flash lingo

flash man

flat

flat cock

flawd

flaybottomist

to flay, or flea, the fox

flea bite

to fleece

flemish account

flesh broker

flicker

flickering

flicking

to fling

flints

flip

floating academy

floating hell

to flog

flogger

flogging cully

flogging cove

flogging stake

to floor

flourish

to flout

flummery

flush in the pocket

flustered

flute

to flux

fly

fly-by-night

fly slicers