Flue-faker, a chimney-sweep.
Fluff it, a term of disapprobation, implying “take it away, I don’t want it.”
Fluff, railway ticket clerks’ slang for short change given by them. The profits thus accruing are called “fluffings,” and the practice is known as “fluffing.”
Fluke, at billiards, playing for one thing and getting another. Hence, generally what one gets accidentally, as an unexpected advantage, “more by luck than judgment.”
Flummery, flattery, gammon, genteel nonsense. In American ships a peculiar kind of light sweet pudding.
Flummux, to perplex or hinder.
Flummuxed, done up, sure of a month in quod, or prison. In mendicant freemasonry, the sign chalked by rogues and tramps upon a gate-post or house corner, to express to succeeding vagabonds that it is unsafe for them to call there, is known as
, or FLUMMUXED, which signifies that the only thing they would be likely to get upon applying for relief would be a “month in quod.”—See [QUOD].
Flunkey, a footman or other man-servant.