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Glossary of Scottish Words, F

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F
Fa'= fall.
Fa'= lot, portion.
Fa'= to get; suit; claim.
Faddom'd= fathomed.
Fae= foe.
Faem= foam.
Faiket= let off, excused.
Fain= fond, glad.
Fainness= fondness.
Fair fa'= good befall! welcome.
Fairin.= a present from a fair.
Fallow= fellow.
Fa'n= fallen.
Fand= found.
Far-aff= far-off.
Farls= oat-cakes.
Fash= annoyance.
Fash= to trouble; worry.
Fash'd, fash't= bothered; irked.
Fashious= troublesome.
Fasten-e'en= Fasten's Even (the evening before Lent).
Faught= a fight.
Fauld= the sheep-fold.
Fauld= folded.
Faulding= sheep-folding.
Faun= fallen.
Fause= false.
Fause-house= hole in a cornstack.
Faut= fault.
Fautor= transgressor.
Fawsont= seemly, well-doing; good-looking.
Feat= spruce.
Fecht= fight.
Feck= the bulk, the most part.
Feck= value= return.
Fecket= waistcoat; sleeve waistcoat (used by farm-servants as both
vest and jacket).
Feckless= weak, pithless, feeble.
Feckly= mostly.
Feg= a fig.
Fegs= faith!
Feide= feud.
Feint= v. fient.
Feirrie= lusty.
Fell= keen= cruel, dreadful, deadly; pungent.
Fell= the cuticle under the skin.
Felly= relentless.
Fen'= a shift.
Fen'= fend, to look after; to care for; keep off.
Fenceless= defenseless.
Ferlie= ferly= a wonder.
Ferlie= to marvel.
Fetches= catches, gurgles.
Fetch't= stopped suddenly.
Fey= fated to death.
Fidge= to fidget, to wriggle.
Fidgin-fain= tingling-wild.
Fiel= well.
Fient= fiend, a petty oath.
Fient a= not a, devil a.
Fient haet= nothing (fiend have it).
Fient haet o'= not one of.
Fient-ma-care= the fiend may care (I don't!).

Fier, fiere= companion.
Fier= sound, active.
Fin'= to find.
Fissle= tingle, fidget with delight.
Fit= foot.
Fittie-lan'= the near horse of the hind-most pair in the plough.
Flae= a flea.
Flaffin= flapping.
Flainin, flannen= flannel.
Flang= flung.
Flee= to fly.
Fleech= wheedle.
Fleesh= fleece.
Fleg= scare, blow, jerk.
Fleth'rin= flattering.
Flewit= a sharp lash.
Fley= to scare.
Flichterin= fluttering.
Flinders= shreds, broken pieces.
Flinging= kicking out in dancing; capering.
Flingin-tree= a piece of timber hung by way of partition between two
horses
in a stable; a flail.
Fliskit= fretted, capered.
Flit= to shift.
Flittering= fluttering.
Flyte= scold.
Fock, focks= folk.
Fodgel= dumpy.
Foor= fared (i. e.= went).
Foorsday= Thursday.
Forbears= forebears, forefathers.
Forby, forbye= besides.
Forfairn= worn out; forlorn.
Forfoughten= exhausted.
Forgather= to meet with.
Forgie= to forgive.
Forjesket= jaded.
Forrit= forward.
Fother= fodder.
Fou, fow= full (i. e.= drunk).
Foughten= troubled.
Foumart= a polecat.
Foursome= a quartet.
Fouth= fulness= abundance.
Fow= v. fou.
Fow= a bushel.
Frae= from.
Freath= to froth.
Fremit= estranged, hostile.
Fu'= full.
Fu'-han't= full-handed.
Fud= a short tail (of a rabbit or hare).
Fuff't= puffed.
Fur= furr= a furrow.
Fur-ahin= the hindmost plough-horse in the furrow.
Furder= success.
Furder= to succeed.
Furm= a wooden form.
Fusionless= pithless, sapless, tasteless.
Fyke= fret.
Fyke= to fuss; fidget.
Fyle= to defile, to foul.


Glossary of Scottish Words A-B
Glossary of Scottish Words C
Glossary of Scottish Words D-E
Glossary of Scottish Words G
Glossary of Scottish Words H
Glossary of Scottish Words, I-K
Glossary of Scottish Words, L
Glossary of Scottish Words, M-P
Glossary of Scottish Words, Q-R
Glossary of Scottish Words, S
Glossary of Scottish Words, T
Glossary of Scottish Words, U-Y

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