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face on , fees on   -     to face up to something, summon up                                      courage

facy    -     impudent 

fain    -     glad 

Fairies petticoats    -    Foxglove

falahver      -     over polite "Hey'd sich a lot o' falahver with                           him"

fallal     -     nonsense, frivolous talk 

fannickly, fenkly     -     smart in appearance 

fantome     -      (1) of hay - light and poor "This hee comes ait                         terrible hoozy an' fantome, it's ommust like                             sniddle" (2) of land - light "That land is soo                             fantome; it's good for nowt bu'tatoes"                                     (phantom, ghostlike?) 

farrantly, farrinkly   -     handsome, good-looking

farrow    -    a litter of pigs 

fauty    -    defective, rotten, in bad condition (faulty) 

favvour    -      to resemble "Tha rather favvours thy Uncle                             George" 

*faw    -     fall, drop

*feared     -     afraid 

feckaz    -     to pick at something, to fiddle or tinker with                           something 

fee    -     surface soil, also used as a verb = to remove the surface soil (Icelandic faeggja = to cleanse) 

ferrups! or ferrips      -     exclamation - "What the ferrups are                                 you on about?" = what the dickens, what                                 the deuce!

fetter, fetter at    -      to hamper, hinder, potter about; to                                          meddle or tamper with 

*fettle    -      order, repair - "It's in fine fettle is my sledge"

fiddle-faddle     -     to act fussily 

fiddler's elbow    -     "like a fiddler's elbow" - going in and                                       out. "Hoo was a regular cant, that's                                         what hoo was - in an' ait o' folks'es                                         haisen like a fiddler's elbow"

fiddler's money    -    small change 

fidge    -     a fidgetty person 

finnack, finnacky    -    mincing, affected manners 

fir-bob   -    fir cone

fire-new  -     brand-new (must originally come from                                     blacksmith phrase) 

fitchet    -    a pole-cat 

fitchet pie    -     pie of apples, onions and bacon

fither-breens   -     light-headed person, feather-brain

fithers    -    feathers 

fizzog    -    the face 

flap-jack    -    a flat cake baked in a pan 

flaps     -   large, flat mushrooms

flash    -    a shallow pool of water 

fleek    -    to bask in the sun or before the fire 

fling   -     to throw behind 

flower-knot    -    a flowerbed

flummer, flusker, fluther    -     confusion 

flummery     -     nonsense, Tomfoolery 

flummock    -     hurry, confusion 

flup   -    (1) a flop (2)trembling "my stomach's all of a flup" (3)              to pour a teapot unsteadily so that the tea comes out              with jerks.

fly up   -     to be bankrupt. The phrase is "to fly up with                            Jackson's hens" 

fog, "To die in a fog"    -    is to give up a task in despair 

foo    -    foolish 

foother      -    to fuss or fidget about

foreigner     -     stranger, even from as close as Shropshire or                          Staffordshire. 

fownder    -    an attempt (from Anglo-Saxon fundian = to                              attempt) 

fourpence i'th'Shillin'     -     foolish, simple, half-witted 

fow, fowtempered    -     ugly, bad-tempered (foul) 

frabbly   -     worrying, ill-tempered

fremt     -    strange, not akin (Anglo Saxon fremde = foreign) 

fretchet     -      (1) of a person - fretful, peevish, irritable (2) of                         things - unnatural 

fribblin    -    small, insubstantial 

frim    -     tender, brittle

fritnin'    -      frightening 

frizgig     -      a little, vain, flirting woman 

frogstoo     -      a toadstool 

frosted    -     frostbitten 

fudging     -      talking nonsense

fugle       -      v. to whistle

fummuz, fummazin     -     to meddle fussily and clumsily

furbles     -      fibres or hairy roots on plants

furmetty, furmetree     -      like porridge, new wheat, boiled                                              and sweetened with sugar

fussock     -    a potato pudding

fuzziky     -    (1)spongey textured (2)apt to break wind,                                noisome

fyerk      -      (1)to flick something off with the finger and                              thumb (2) to loiter around

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