Fancy man. A married woman's lover. 'He be Bill's wife's fancy man, that's what he do be.'—N.W.
*Fang. To strangle; to bind a wounded limb so tightly as to stop the flow of blood (A.B.H.Wr.).
Fantag, Fanteague, &c. (1) n. Fluster, fuss. Fantaig (S.).—N. & S.W. (2) Vagaries or larks, as 'Now, none o' your fantaigs here!' At Clyffe Pypard, N.W., 'a regular fantaig' would be a flighty flirting lad or girl, a 'wondermenting or gammotty sort of a chap.'—N. & S.W.
*Fardingale. A quarter of an acre (H.Wr. Lansd. MS.). The old form is Farding-deal (Wr.). Compare Thurindale, &c.—Obsolete.
'1620. Itm, to the same Thomas & Nicholas Lea for theire helpe to laye the Acres into ffarendells.'—Records of Chippenham, p. 202.
'1649. Twoe ffarthendels of grasse.'—Ibid. p. 217.
Farewell Summer. The Michaelmas Daisy.—N. & S.W.
Fashion. The farcey, a disease in horses (A.H.Wr.). Fr. farcin.—N.W.
'An old Wiltshire farmer, when his grand-daughters appeared before him with any new piece of finery, would ask what it all meant. The girls would reply, "fashion, gran'váther!" when the old man would rejoin, "Ha! many a good horse has died o' th' fashion!"'—Akerman.