1602. Rowland, Greene’s Ghost, 37. They come off with their ...
frumps.
Verb (old).—To mock; to insult.
1589. Nashe, Month’s Mind, in Works, Vol. I., p. 158. One of them
... maketh a iest of Princes, and ‘the troubling of the State, and
offending of her Maiestie,’ hee turneth of with a frumping
forsooth, as though it were a toie to think of it.
1593. G. Harvey, Pierces Super, in Works II., 107. That despiseth
the graces of God, flowteth the constellations of heaven, frumpeth
the operations of nature.
1609. Man in the Moone. Hee ... frumpeth those his mistresse
frownes on.
1757. Garrick, Irish Widow, I., i. Yes, he was frumped, and called
me old blockhead.
Frumper, subs. (old).—A sturdy man; a good blade.
1825. Kent, Modern Flash Dict., s.v.
Frumpish, adj. (colloquial).—Cross-grained; old-fashioned and severe in
dress, manners, morals, and notions; ill-natured; given to frumps. Also
Frumpy.
1589. Greene, Tullies Love, in wks. vii., 131. Who were you but as
fauourable, as you are frumpish, would soone censure by my talke,
how deepe I am reade in loues principles.
1701. Farquhar, Sir Harry Wildair, Act. V., Sc. 5. She got, I don’t
know how, a crotchet of jealousy in her head. This made her
frumpish, but we had ne’er an angry word.
1757. Foote, Author, Act II. And methought she looked very frumpish
and jealous.
1764. O’Hara, Midas, I., 3. La! mother, why so frumpish?
1864. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, Bk. I., ch. xi. ‘Don’t fancy me a
frumpy old married woman, my dear; I was married but the other day,
you know.’
1889. Modern Society, 12 Oct., p. 1271, col. 2. Quite an elderly
and superannuated look is given to the toilette which is finished
off by a woollen cloud or silken shawl, and only invalids and
sixty-year-old women should be allowed such frumpish privileges.
Frushee, subs. (Scots’).—An open jam tart.
Fry, verb (common).—To translate into plain English. Cf., boil down.
1881. Jas. Payn, Grape from a Thorn, ch. xxx. ‘I shall repose the
greatest confidence in you, my dear girl, which one human being can
entrust to another,’ was one of its sentences, which, when it came
‘to be fried,’ meant that she should delegate to her the duties of
combing Fido and cutting her canary’s claws.
Go and fry your face, phr. (common).—A retort expressive of
incredulity, derision, or contempt.
Frying-pan. To jump from the frying-pan into the fire, verb. phr.
(common).—To go from bad to worse. Cf., ‘from the smoke into the
smother’ (As You Like it, i., 2.). Fr., tomber de la poêle dans la
braise.
1684. Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II. Some, though they shun
the frying-pan, do leap into the fire.
To Fry the Pewter, verb. phr. (thieves’).—To melt down pewter measures.
F Sharp, subs. phr. (common).—A flea; cf., B flat.
Fuant, subs. (old).—Excrement.—B. E. Dict. of the Canting Crew.
Fub, verb. (old).—To cheat; to steal; to put off with false excuses.
Also Fubbery = cheating, stealing, deception.
1598. Shakspeare, 2 Henry IV., II., 1. I have borne, and borne, and
borne, and have been fubbed off, and fubbed off from this day to
that day.
1604. Marston, Malcontent, i., 3. O no; but dream the most
fantastical. O heaven! O fubbery! fubbery!
1619. Fletcher, Mons. Thomas, ii., 2. My letter fubb’d too.
1647. Cartwright, Ordinary. iv., 4. I won’t be fubbed.
Fubsey or Fubsy, adj. (old).—Plump; fat; well-filled. Fubsy dummy = a
well-filled pocket book; fubsy wench = a plump girl.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1825. English Spy, I., p. 188. Old dowagers, their fubsy faces,
Painted to eclipse the Graces.
1837. Marryat, Snarley-yow, I., ch. viii. Seated on the widow’s
little fubsy sofa.
Fubsiness, subs. (common).—Any sort of fatness.
Fuck, subs. (venery).—1. An act of coition. For synonyms, see Greens.