[part the second: FERLY to FLAPDOODLE]

thus resumes the second part of my poolitzer-nominated series within a series of select f-words from this ferly dictionary:

  • FERLY. Wonderfully strange
  • FERNYERE. In former times
  • FEVER-LURDEN. The disease of idleness
  • FEZZON. To seize on—generally applied to the actions of a greedy ravenous eater
  • FILL DIKE. The month of February
  • FIMASHINGS. In hunting, the dung of any kind of wild beasts
  • FIPPLE. The under lip
  • FIRST FOOT. The name given to the first person who first enters a dwelling house on New Year’s day
  • FIRSUN. Furze or gorse
  • FISS BUTTOCKED SOW. A fat, coarse, vulgar, presuming woman
  • FIX. A lamb yeaned dead
  • FLACKET. A girl whose clothes hang loosely about her
  • FLAG. A flake of snow
  • FLANKER. A spark of fire
  • FLANTUM FLATHERUM PIEBALD DILL. A woman fantastically dressed with various colours
  • FLAPDOODLE. The stuff fools are said to nourished on



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