1889. Licensed Victuallers’ Gaz., 18 Jan. Dick was done out of the stakes on an appeal of foul.
To foul a plate with, verbal phr. (old, colloquial).—To dine or sup with.—Grose.
Foulcher, subs. (thieves’).—A purse.
1877. Five Years’ Penal Servitude, ch. iii., p. 243. ‘A foulcher, with flimsies and couters for a score of quid in it.’
Foul-mouthed, adj. (colloquial).—Obscene or blasphemous in speech.
Found in a Parsley-bed. See Parsley-bed and Gooseberry-bush.
Fountain of Love, subs. phr. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable.
Four-and-nine (or Four-and-ninepenny), subs. phr. (old).—A hat. [So-called from the price at which an enterprising Bread Street hatter sold his hats, circa 1844, at which date London was hideous with posters displaying a large black hat and ‘4s. and 9d.’ in white letters.]
1844. Advertisement Couplet. Whene’er to slumber you incline, Take a short nap at four-and-nine. [[63]]
1846. Thackeray, Yellow Plush Papers, p. 152 (ed. 1887). You may, for instance, call a coronet a coronal (an ‘ancestral coronal,’ p. 74) if you like, as you might call a hat a ‘swart sombrero,’ a ‘glossy four-and-nine,’ ‘a silken helm to storm impermeable, and lightsome as the breezy gossamer;’ but in the long run it is safer to call it a hat.