Fug, verb. (Shrewsbury School).—To stay in a stuffy room.
Fugel, verb. (venery).—To possess; to have (q.v.).
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., i., 126. Who fugelled the Parson’s fine
Maid.
Fuggy, subs. (schoolboys’).—A hot roll.
Adj. (Shrewsbury School).—Stuffy.
Fugo, subs. (obsolete).—The rectum, or (Cotgrave) ‘bung-hole.’
1720. Durfey, Pills, etc., vi., 247. This maid, she like a beast
turned her fugo to the East.
Fulhams or Fullams, subs. (old).—Loaded dice; called ‘high’ or ‘low’
fulhams as they were intended to turn up high or low. Cf., gourd.
[Conjecturally, because manufactured at Fulham, or because that village
was a notorious resort of blacklegs.] For synonyms, see Uphills.
1594. Nashe, Unf. Traveller, in wks. v., 27. The dice of late are
growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper
alike, langrets, fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them
will not affoord a man his dinner.
1596. Shakspeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, i., 3. Let vultures gripe
thy guts! for gourd, and fullam holds, And high and low beguile the
rich and poor.
1599. Jonson, Every Man out of His Hum., iii., 1. Car.: Who! he
serve? ’sblood, he keeps high men, and low men, he! he has—fair
living at Fullam. [Whalley’s note in Gifford’s Jonson, The dice
were loaded to run high or low; hence they were called high men or
low men, and sometimes high and low fullams. Called fullams either
because F. was the resort of sharpers, or because they were chiefly
made there.]
1664. Butler, Hudibras, Part II., C. i., 1. 642. But I do wonder
you should chuse This way t’ attack me with your muse, As one cut
out to pass your tricks on, With fulhams of poetic fiction. [Note
in Dr. Nash’s Ed., vol. I., p. 272 (Ed. 1835). ‘That is, with
cheats or impositions. Fulham was a cant word for a false die, many
of them being made at that place.’]
1822. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, ch. xxiii. Men talk of high and low
dice, Fulhams and bristles ... and a hundred ways of rooking
besides.