Lancashire Dialect Glossary F
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Fa, faw, fo – fall. Neet-fo – night fall
Faddle – nonsense, trifling (SB)
Fadge – a small load of coal
Fadge – a burden; part of a horse-load (SB)
Fag – to tire; faggin tiring (SB)
Fag'd – tired (SB)
Fagend – the tail end
Fawn, foan, fo’en – fallen ‘Loike some owd shackle fo’en to rust’
Fag – tire
Fagged – tired
Fag-end – the far end
Fain – pleased, glad ‘Hail, owd friend! Aw’m fain to see thi’
Fainer – more glad (SB)
Fair – utterly ‘Fair taken aback’, ‘Aw felt fair sat on’
Fair fo – fair fall; "good attend you" (SB)
Fairee – fairy (SB)
Fairin’ – gift from a fair ‘Lasses darin’, look for th’ fairin’’
Fair-up – become fine weather again ‘It’ll fair up inneaw’
Famish – to starve of hunger; pl. famishn (SB)
Fangle – conceit, whim. "Whot newfangle has he neaw?” (SB)
Far – the farther ‘I’m at t’ far end’, He’s at t’ far end o’ the’ field’
Farrant – decent, respectable; farrantly, decently, beseemly (SB)
Farrantly – decent, respectable. Ben Brierley says this is a corruption of
‘fair and clean’, now applied to mean ‘decent and good-looking’
Fash – the tops of turnips; waste (SB)
Fast – puzzled, stuck ‘For when a woman’s gradely vext,
Hoo’s never fast for what t’say next’
Fat’ll be i’ th’ foyar – everything gone wrong
Fattert – embarrassed; unhandy in doing a job; "he's quite fatter” (SB)
Fattle – to trifle about business; to pay slight attentions to a female. "See heaw he gwos fattlin abeawt hur" (SB)
Fattlin – trifling; fatler, a trifler, a peddling fellow (SB)
Fause, fawse, foace – clever, crafty, also false ‘He towd um heaw
Solomon were a fause mon’. ‘A foace un’ is one who believes
that he has all the wit and can see more than his fellows.
Faut, fawt – fault ‘It isno eawr fawt we were born’
Favver, favvern – favour, resemble
Favvert – favoured ‘Thae favvert, then, a feightin’ cock’
Fav'vor – favour (SB)
Faw, fawd – fall, fell ‘He fawd wi’ a whack’
Fawse – cunning, also false (SB)
Fawt – fault (SB)
Fawtty – faulty (SB)
Fayberry – gooseberry (SB)
Fayther, fether, feyther – father ‘Tha’s thi feyther’s nose, aw see’
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Feaberry – gooseberry
Feart – afraid ‘Awm noan feart o’ boggart muck’
Feear – fear
Feaw – anything ugly, to look cross, bad ‘Neaw aw’ve getten th’ feawst lass
un th’ wost pair o’ looms’; "feawwhean," an ugly woman (SB)
Feawl, a fowl (SB)
Feawnded – founded (SB)
Feawntun – fountain (SB)
Feawntun-yed – fountainhead (SB)
Feel – fell: "he feel deawn" (SB)
Feelt – field
Feerfo – fearful (SB)
Feersuns-een – Shrovetide even (SB)
Feert, feort, feeort – afraid ‘Aw’r gooin’ by a docthur’s shop, Ut to o’ Newton Yeth;
Un theer aw gav’a sudden stop, Un begun t’ be feort o’ deoth’
Feffnicute – a kind of hypocrite, one who blows hot or cold to suit the moment; Fefnicut –, sometimes. Thefnicute, a hypocrite, a parasite, a hanger on (SB)
Fegger – fairer (SB)
Feigher – fire
Feld –, felt; pl. feldn (SB)
Fire-potter – a poker
Feigh or Feygh – to move soil from the top of gravel or sand; to lay bare, to uncover a stratum, to remove earth (SB)
Feight – fight ‘Boh aw fair hate th’ seet o’ great lunk swords,
Sin th’ feight at Peterloo, mon’
Fella, felly, felley – man, fellow
Felly – fellow; also to swagger; fellyin, domineering (SB)
Felly'll – the man will; "th' felly'll pay yo" (SB)
Fend – to provide for; "he fends for his family” (SB)
Ferrups – an exclamation. "Whot te ferrups arto dooin!" (SB)
Festn – to fasten, to bind (SB)
Fettle – in good condition, in good health, in good form ‘in good fettle’
Fettle – to mend a thing, to repair; also a condition, as "he's i' very good fettle" (SB)
Fettled – mended, in good order ‘So he teed it wi’ tatchin’, an’ patched it wi’ glue,
And fettled it gradely as best he could do’
Fewtrills – little things, small affairs (SB)
Feyght – to fight; feyghtin, fighting; pl. feyghtn; rm. with weight (SB)
Feyther – father; feythurt, fathered; feytherin, fathering (SB)
Fhog – dried, withered grass. The o sounded as in dhog. (SB)
Fhort – fault; rm. short; "It's none omi fhort" (SB)
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Fib – an untruth (SB)
Firrups – an imprecation ‘What the firrups!’
Fither – feather; rm. with wither (SB)
Fizzic – physic ‘A mon may hev brass an’ be ailin’,
May be fizzickt his life thro’ bi quacks’
Flabbergasted – speechless with surprise
Flaight – a light turf (SB)
Flake – a bread rack
Flash – an old pit nearly grown up (SB)
Flat-iron – used in ironing clothes
Flaid, flay’d – frightened ‘Sent ‘em hooamward flayed to deeath’
Flasker – to struggle, to flounder, to endeavour to elude (SB)
Flasket – a shallow basket (SB)
Flay – to fear
Flay – to frighten. "He quite flay'd meh" (SB)
Fleawer – flour, also a flower (SB)
Fleawnder – to flounder (SB)
Fleazy – dusty, linty, fibrous (SB)
Fleck – a spot; fleckt, spotted (SB)
Flee – to flay, to skin (SB)
Fleein – flaying; pl. fleedn (SB)
Fleigh – a flea; fleighin, killing fleas (SB)
Fleet – skimmed milk
Fleet – to skim, to take cream from milk; also swift (SB)
Fleety – flighty, capricious (SB)
Flet – skimmed (SB)
Flick – a flitch (SB)
Flinders – small pieces, fragments. "It's broken into flinders" (SB)
Flit – to remove ‘Come Tummas, let’s flit fro this pleck’
‘Three flittin’s are as bad as a foire’
Flit – to remove; flittin, removing; pl. flittnt (SB)
Flite – to scold ‘Aw flited her’
Fliz – a splinter; flizzin, splintering (SB)
Float – an imperfection in woven cloth
Floose or Fleeze – the flyings of wool or cotton (SB)
Flop – a noise of bursting. "It floppt off" (SB)
Flother – redundance, extravagance, inaptitude of dress or conversation (SB)
Flothery – tending to extravagance. "Whot flother he tawks." "Heaw flothery hoo looks" (SB)
Flunk – to fly at, to set at, like game cocks (SB)
Flunter – in a hurry,
Flunter – confusion, disorder, hurry (SB)
Flunter ‘out of flunter’ – not well. Not working properly, ailing
Flure – floor ‘O’ mi white clooas are deawn uppo’ th’ flure’
Flyr – to smile scornfully. "Whot arto flyrin at." "Theaw needsno' flyr athatn" (SB)
Flyte or Flite – to scold; flytin, scolding; flyttn, scolded; flotn, they scolded (SB)
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Foak, fooak, fok, fowk – folk ‘Ther’s nowt so queer as foak’
Fob – a pocket
Foe – to fall; fen, fallen; fed, fell (SB)
Foist – a stink (SB)
Foire, foyar – fire ‘I crope nar th’ foyar ogen’
Foke – folk, people (SB)
Follud – followed; pl. follun (SB)
Fo-out – fall out, disagree ‘Han yo foen-out wi me?’
Foo – fool ‘Whey, wot a foo for t’tell me t’ do it’
Foo – a fool; Foo-goad, a gaud, or plaything for a fool (SB)
Fooin – fooling
Foomart – polecat
Foomurt – a pole-cat (SB)
Foote – the foot ; also a foot measure: rm. Hoot (SB)
Forged – forget
Forgeet – forgot
Forgi – forgive; forgimmi – forgive me (SB)
Forrad, forrud – forward ‘Aw thought to seem forrud wur wrong’
For sartin, for shure – for certain, for sure, ‘I con, for sartin,
I con, for shure, tell lasses fortin
For shame – ‘Aw connot for shame be too soon,
An’ aw wouldn’t for th’ world be too late’
Former – to order, to bespeak a thing (SB)
Forrud – forward (SB)
Forsartin – for certain, certainly, "Aye, forsartin will I" (SB)
Forsuth – forsooth (SB)
Fort' – for to; to do a thing (SB)
Forthought – reflected, considered, called to mind (SB)
Fortin’ – fortune ‘Dunnot fret thi nob wi fortin’ an’ her pranks’
Foryet – to forget (SB)
Foryetin – forgetting (SB)
Foryetn – forgotten (SB)
Fost, fust – first ‘Until he geet promised, if owt should torn eawt,
‘At he could hev t’ fost chance to start’
Fost – fast ‘For aw’ll goo to Owdham os fost os aw con’
Fot, fotch – fetch ‘My neest is snug an’ sweet; Aw’ll go an’ fotch my brid!’
Fotchn – we fetch (SB)
Fotchut – we did fetch (SB)
Foughten – fought ‘Han yo bin to Bowton? Yigh. Han yo foughten?
Yigh. Han yo lickt’n? Yigh, an’ aw browten a bit’n him whoam i’ my pocket (Rev. W. Gaskell’s lecture on the Dialect)
Fotch – to give (a blow) ‘I’ll fot thi one!’
Fother – fodder (SB)
Fothern – do fodder (SB)
Fothertn – did fodder (SB)
Fowd, fowt – a fold, or yard ‘Wev’d a clooas hedge an fowd to eawrsels,
An’ o for a shillin’ a week’
Fowd – a fold, a number of houses together; a fold for cattle; a fold of cloth; also to fold up (SB)
Fox-Denton – a place near Oldham (SB)
Foyer – fire
Foyer-eyrons – fire irons (SB)
Foyer-place – the place where the fire is kept (SB)
Foyer-potter – a fire-poker (SB)
Foyer-new – very new (this latter obs.) (SB)
Frabbin’ – struggling, to contend against
‘Rare Anvil fot hard, but his frabbin’ wur vain’
Frame – to try, to show ability ‘Th’ lad frames weel’
Frame – to set about doing a piece of work or other business, as "come begin a framin abeawt it." " Heaw wkurtly theaw frames." (SB)
Framput – an iron ring that slips on a stake by which cattle are held in their stall (SB)
Frang – to be petulent, and quarrelsome (SB)
Frangy – snappish (SB)
Frangin – disputing, quarrelling (SB)
Frap – a short quarrel ‘A bit of a frap’
Frappin – disputing, quarrelling (SB)
Frappish – snappish, given to dispute (SB)
Fratch – quarrel. A noisy quarrel.
Fratching – quarrelsome
Frawt – for aught, for anything (SB)
Free melcht – free in giving milk; a good-natured person is said to be, " free-melcht."
Fret – fright (SB)
Freeten, freetened – frighten, frightened (SB)
Fremd – not akin, a person residing with a family to which he is not related would be termed "a fremd;" if it were asked, is he akin to you? the answer would be, "nowe, he's nobbut a fremd body." (SB)
Fresh – anything new ‘Owt fresh’
Freyd – fretted, like cloth much worn (SB)
Fridge – to rub, scratch
Frisgig – a silly young woman
Frist – trust (obs.) (SB)
Fro’ – from ‘Sooa th’ world wags on fro’ day to day’
Frump – to sulk, to take offence (SB)
Frumps – sulks. "Whot's hoo taen th' frumps at?" (SB)
Fruns – frowns. "Whot arto stickin opthe fruns at Frough, tender, rather brittle (obs.) (SB)
Fruss – a fuss; much ado about nothing (SB)
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Fuddled – drunk
Fuddle – to tipple (SB)
Fun, fund – found ‘I fun it in th’ dolly-tub’
Fund – found (SB)
Fur – far ‘Ther’s lots o poor factory folk getten t’ fur end’
Furr – further (SB)
Furrend – the further end (SB)
Furst – first (SB)
Fussocks – a fat, idle woman
Fut, fuut – foot ‘There’s never a gate so kind to the fuut,
As th’ gate one likes to go [gate = road]’
Futter – busy doing nothing ‘What arto futterin at?’
Futtert – fluttered, confused, shiftless, hobshackled (SB)
Fyer – fear, to frighten
Fyest – a feast; Fyestin, feasting; Fyestn, they feast; Fyested, feasted (SB)
Fyr – to fear, as "He fyrs meh;" Fyrin, fearing, causing fear; Fyrt, frightened; fyrtn, they frightened (SB)
Fyrin – fearing, apparitions
Fyrn – fern, a plant (SB)
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