ferthe (A.S.) [413], fourth
festnen (A.S.) to fasten. part. pas. fest, [35]
festynge (A.N.) feasting
festu (A.N.) [190], a mote in the eye. (festuca, Lat.)
fetisliche, [28], fetisly, [38] (A.N.) elegantly, neatly, featously
fibicches (A.N. ?) [186] (?)
†fichewes (A.S.) [468], a kind of weasel, called a fitchet in Shropshire
†fyen (A.N.) [487], to say, fy! The exclamation, fy! was originally one of disgust, occasioned by anything that stunk, according to the old distich (MS. Cotton, Cleop. B. ix, fol. 11, vo. of the thirteenth cent.):—
Phi, nota fœtoris, lippus gravis omnibus horis,
Sit phi, sit lippus semper procul, ergo Philippus!