Flying mess, “to be in FLYING MESS” is a soldier’s phrase for being hungry and having to mess where he can.
Flying stationer, a paper-worker, hawker of penny ballads; “Printed for the Flying Stationers” is the imprimatur on hundreds of penny histories and sheet songs of the last and present centuries.
Flymy, knowing, cunning, roguish.—Seven Dials and Low Life.
Fly the kite, or RAISE THE WIND, to obtain money on bills, whether good or bad, probably in allusion to tossing paper about as children do kites.
Fly the kite, to evacuate from a window,—term used in padding-kens, or low lodging-houses.
Fobbed, old slang for robbed. From FOB, the ancient breeches-pocket for the watch.
Fogey, or OLD FOGEY, a dullard, an old-fashioned or singular person. Grose says it is a nickname for an invalid soldier, from the French fougueux, fierce or fiery, but it has lost this signification now.
Fogger, old word for a huckster.
Fogger, a farm servant who feeds cattle. Probably a corruption of fodderer.