To make the fur fly.—See Fly.
To have one’s fur out, verb. phr. (Winchester College).—To be angry. For synonyms, see Nab the rust.
Fur and Feathers, subs. phr. (sporting).—Generic for game.
Fur-below, subs. (venery).—The female pubic hair. For synonyms, see Fleece.
16(?). Old Catch. Adam caught Eve by the fur-below, And that’s the oldest catch I know.
Furioso, subs. (old).—A blusterer; Ital., furioso = raving.
1692. Hacket. Life of Archbishop Williams, ii., p. 218. A violent man and a furioso was deaf to all this.
English Synonyms.—Barker; blower; bobadil; bouncer; bulldozer (American); cacafogo; Captain Bounce; Captain Bluff; Captain Grand; Captain Hackam; cutter; fire-eater; hector; huff-cap; humguffin; gasser; gasman; mouth; mouth-almighty; pissfire; pump-thunder; ramper; roarer; ruffler; shitefire; slangwhanger; spitfire; swashbuckler; swasher; teazer; Timothy Tearcat.
French Synonyms.—Un avale-tout-cru (popular: = an eat-all-he-kills); un fendart or fendart [[91]](popular: = a cutter); un avaleur de charrettes fereés (popular); un mata (printers’: from matador = a bull-fighter); un bousineur (popular: bousin = uproar, shindy); un bourreau de crânes (military): = a scull-destroyer; un bœufier (popular: = an ugly customer); un mauvais gas (familiar: from garçon); un homme qui a l’air de vouloir tout avaler (familiar: a man who looks as though he’d swallow the world); un croquet (popular).
Spanish Synonyms.—Perdonavidas; fierabras (fiera = a wild beast); botarate; macareno cacafuoco (= a shitfire).