FLOOR, to knock down.—_Pugilistic.__A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James.

FLOORER, a blow sufficiently strong to knock a man down.

FLOWERY, lodging, or house entertainment; “square the omee for the

FLOWERY,” pay the master for the lodging.

FLUE FAKERS, chimney sweeps; also low sporting characters, who are so

termed from their chiefly betting on the _Great Sweeps_.

FLUFF IT, a term of disapprobation, implying “take it away, I don’t

want it.”

FLUKE, at billiards, playing for one thing and getting another. Hence,

generally what one gets accidentally, an unexpected advantage, “more by

luck than wit.”

FLUMMERY, flattery, gammon, genteel nonsense.

FLUMMUX, to perplex, hinder; FLUMMUXED, stopped, used up.

FLUMMUXED, done up, sure of a month in QUOD, or prison. In mendicant

freemasonry, the sign chalked by rogues and tramps upon a gate-post or

house corner, to express to succeeding vagabonds that it is unsafe for

them to call there, is known as ☉, or FLUMMUXED, which signifies that

the only thing they would be likely to get upon applying for relief

would be “a month in QUOD.”—_See_ QUOD.

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