more f-words from yesteryear
[part the third: FLAP-DRAGON to FLURT]
this week’s edition contains a mésalliance of both handy definitions (“a side of bacon”, “to laugh sarcastically”), balderdash™-style descriptions (“the person who puts the feather on an arrow”, “having a mouth like a flounder”), and suessian whimsy (flee flowns, flibberjibber, and flothery). enjoy:
- FLAP-DRAGON. A small substance such as a plum or candle end set afloat in a cup of spirits and when set on fire, snatched by the mouth and swallowed. This was a common amusement in former times but is now nearly obsolete
- FLAWPS. An awkward, noisy, untidy, and slovenly person
- FLAZE. A smoky flame
- FLEACHES. Portions into which timber is cut by the saw
- FLEAMY. Clotted with blood
- FLEE FLOWNS. The eggs of flies in meat
- FLECK. a side of bacon
- FLETCHER. An arrow maker. Properly the person who put on the feather
- FLIBBERGIBBER. A lying knave
- FLIGHT-SHOT. The distance a flight arrow would go, about a fifth part of a mile
- FLIPPERING. Crying, weeping
- FLIT. To move, especially at night to cheat the landlord
- FLIZZEN. To laugh sarcastically
- FLIZZOMS. Flying particles
- FLOKE MOWTHEDE. Having a mouth like a flounder
- FLOOD MARK. The mark which the sea at the highest tide makes on the shore
- FLOP. the scrotum
- FLOTHERY. Slovenly but attempting to be fine and showy
- FLUMP. a heavy fall
- FLURCH. A great quantity
- FLURT. To snap the fingers derisively. Hence any satirical action or speech
