The Glossary of Scottish Words continues...
| 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. |
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