A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words / Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James.

by John Camden Hotten

FUDGE, nonsense, stupidity. Todd and Richardson only trace the word to Goldsmith. Disraeli, however, gives the origin to a Captain Fudge, a great fibber, who told monstrous stories, which made his crew say in answer to any improbability, “you FUDGE it!”—See Remarks on the Navy, 1700.

FULLAMS, false dice, which always turn up high.—Shakes.

FULLY, “to be FULLIED,” to be committed for trial. From the slang of the penny-a-liner, “the prisoner was fully committed for trial.”

FUNK, to smoke out.—North.

FUNK, trepidation, nervousness, cowardice. To FUNK, to be afraid, or nervous.

FUNNY-BONE, the extremity of the elbow—or rather, the muscle which passes round it between the two bones, a blow on which causes painful tingling in the fingers. Facetiously derived, from its being the extremity of the humerus (humorous).

FYE-BUCK, a sixpence. Nearly obsolete.

GAB, GABBER, or GABBLE, talk; “gift of the GAB,” loquacity, or natural talent for speech-making.—Anglo Norman.

GAD, a trapesing, slatternly woman.—Gipsey. Anglo Saxon, GADELYNG.

GADDING THE HOOF, going without shoes. Gadding, roaming about, although used in an old translation of the Bible, is now only heard amongst the lower orders.