Funny, a rowing boat with both ends pointed and out of the water.
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; GAB is also found in the Danish and Old Norse.
Gaby, a simpleton, a country bumpkin. Probably from gape.
Gad, a trapesing slatternly woman.—Gipsy. Anglo-Saxon, GÆDELING.
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.
Gaff, a penny play-house, in which talking is not permitted on the stage. See [PENNY GAFF].
Gaffer, a master, or employer; term used by “navvies,” and general in Lancashire and North of England. Early English for an old man. See “[BLOW THE GAFF].”
Gaffing, tossing halfpence, or counters.—North, where it means tossing up three halfpennies. One man tosses, and another calls. Sometimes the coins are tossed from a stick, and the tosser keeps those which fall heads uppermost.