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 WEST CORNWALL OLOSSART. 23 Flykanite, a giddy girL Fo*ced, p. p. M adj. forced ; obliged. <* A forced put is no dfcLoioe." Fogo, a care in a cliff; a hollow. Folger, Folyer /follower), a boat that earries the tack -net in pilchard fishing. Fooch, a tiiakeshift A fooeh of a dennar" (dinner). Foooh, V. to make a thing aerye ; to do upon a push. <'Oan 'ee fooch along wi' that f " Fooch, V. to posh; to thrust yourself forwBurdi " Where be ee/oochingf" Fooohisg along, doing indiffer- ently well. ** How be 'ee, Jan?" '^ Fooching along, thank 'ee. Foofhy, Forfhy, adj, forward. " A fine farthy maid." •* He's bra' BSiA foothyj* Fore-stroll, v, ''I have never walked with her. I may have seen her fcre-vtroUy and gone to overtake her." St. Just, T. G. Fo'right-bread, Foreright- bread, bread made from unsifted flour. Fo*right, Foreright, person, adj. an out-spoken person. Forrel, the cover of a book. Forfh-and-baoky adj. inconstant. Fonste, v. to crumple ; to ruffle ; to disarrange. < * Tou* ve fouued your cap." " Don't fwue the clain clothes." Fraage, v. to spread out like a fan. Frape, v. to bind. Couch. Freath, a gap in a wattled hedge. Couch. Frith, a gap in a hedge made up. J. W. Freathed, adj. wattled. Freathe, v, to weave. Freathe out, to unravel. " This stuff freMeB out very quickly.* French nuts, walnuts. Fret, t;. to ferment. FrioketSf FlioketSy sudden heats in the face. Friday-in-lide, a miner^s holiday. The first Friday in March. " Ducks won't lay till they've diinked lide water." ** Friday- ffi'lide IB marked by a serio* comic custom of sending a young man on the highest oound^ or hillock of the work, and allow- ing him to sleep there as long as he can ; the length of this siesta being the measure of the after- noon nap for the tinners through- out the ensuing twelvemonths." T. a Couch. Fringle, the grate of a kitchen. Fringle-hole, the place under the grate where the ashes lie. Frivolous, adj. thin; liable to break. ** This wool is very /rivoIouB." Full-butt, phr. &ce to face. '' I met him /uH-butt." Fulsome, adj. cloying. "This tart is swate and/Wtfome.** Funny, well-pleasing. " It looks funny * — ^it looks well-pleasing ; regular. Polwhele. Fur, V. to pull the ears. F. C. Fuz', furze. "Sweating like a yW-bush on a dewy morning." Fuz'-ohat) the stone-chatter. Fuz'-kite, the ring-tailed kite. Fuzsy-pigi the hedgehog. F. C. Oad, a mining tool ; a wedge for splitting rocks. Oaddle, v. to drink greedily. T. Q. Couch. " To fill up; to brim over." Carland. Oad-je-yraws, ox-eye daisies.