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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

eternity box

eves

eve's custom-house

eves dropper

evil

ewe

execution day

expended

eye

eye-sore

face-making

facer

fadge

to fag

fagger

faggot

faithful

fair

fakement

fallalls

fallen away from a horse load to a cart load

family man

fam lay

fams

fambles

to famgrasp

family of love

fancy man

to fan

fantastically dressed

fart

fart catcher

farting crackers

fartleberries

fastner

fastnesses

fat

as fat as a hen in the forehead

fat cull

fat headed

faulkner

faytors

fators

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