Flitmouse. The bat. A shortened form of Flittermouse.—N.W. (Marlborough.)
Flitters. Pieces. A cup falls, and is broken 'aal to vlitters.'—N.W.
*Floating or Flowing meadow. A meadow laid up in ridges with water-carriages on each ridge and drains between (D.). A lowland meadow watered from a river, as opposed to Catch-meadow (Annals of Agric.). Floted meadowes (Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 51, ed. Brit.).
Flod. See Preterites.
Flop-a-dock. Digitalis purpurea, L., Foxglove.—S.W. (Hants bord.)
Floppetty. adj. Of a woman, untidy, slatternly in dress or person. Flopperty (S.).—S.W.
Flowing Meadows. See Floating Meadows.
Flowse. (1) v. act. You 'flowse,' or splash, the water over you in a bath.—N. & S.W. (2) v. neut. Water is said to be 'flowsing down' when rushing very strongly through a mill hatch. A horse likes to 'flowse about' in a pond.—S.W. (3) n. The rush of water through a hatch.—S.W. (4) n. Occasionally also applied to the narrow walled channel between the hatch gate and the pool below.—S.W.
Flucksey. adj. 'A flucksey old hen,' i.e. a hen who makes a great fuss over her chickens.—S.W. (Bishopstrow, &c.) Cope's Hants Glossary has:—'Flucks, to peck in anger like a hen.'