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Fast Girl or Young Lady (A) is one who talks slang, assumes the airs of a knowing one, and has no respect for female delicacy and retirement. She is the ape of the fast young man.
I hope and pray that no AWADtalk members are "fast girls". Good for a laugh.Rember, the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable from which these items were taken is over a hundread years old.
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Fata Morgana A sort of mirage occasionally seen in the Straits of Messina. Fata is Italian for a "fairy," and the fairy Morgana was the sister of Arthur and pupil of Merlin. She lived at the bottom of a lake, and dispensed her treasures to whom she liked. She is first introduced in the Orlando Innamorato as "Lady Fortune," but subsequently assumes her witch-like attributes. In Tasso her three daughters are introduced.
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Fey Predestined to early death. When a person suddenly changes his wonted manner of life, as when a miser becomes liberal, or a churl good-humoured, he is said in Scotch to be fey, and near the point of death.
My dictionary still gives this as the first meaning, but I have only seen it used in the second meaning striange, unusual, otherworldly
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Fi or Fie! An exclamation indicating that what is reproved is dirty or indecent. The dung of many animals, as the boar, wolf, fox, marten, and badger, is called fiants, and the "orificium anale" is called a fi, a word still used in Lincolnshire. (Anglo-Norman, fay, to clean out; Saxon, afylan, to foul: our defile or file, to make foul; filth, etc.) The old words, fie-corn (dross corn), fi-lands (unenclosed lands), fi-mashings (the dung of any wild beast), etc., are compounds of the same word.
Fie on Keiva.
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Findon Haddocks Haddocks smoked with green wood. (See Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary, xxvi.) Findon or Finnon is a village some six miles south of Aberdeen, where haddocks are cured.
I haven't had finnan haddie for years. How about you, wow?
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I used to fall In love with all Those boys who call On young cuties But now I find I'm all inclined To keep my mind On my duties Since I've begun to share In such a sweet love affair
Though I'm in love, I'm not above A date with a duke or a caddie It's just a pose, 'cause my baby knows That my heart belongs to daddy
When some good scout, invites me out To dine om some fine finnan haddie My baby's sure, his love is secure Cause my heart belongs to daddy
Yes my heart belongs to daddy So I simply couldn't be bad Yes I'm gonna marry daddy Da-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ad If you feel romantic laddy Let me warn you right from the start That my heart belongs to daddy And my daddy belongs to my heart
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Fir-cone on the Thyrsus. The juice of the fir-tree (turpentine) used to be mixed by the Greeks with new wine to make it keep; hence it was adopted as one of the symbols of Bacchus.
A lecturer on biochemistry told us Roman ladies drank small amounts of turpentine, because it made their urine smell like lavender. Perhaps this is how they learned it. But when I asked the lecturer for whose benefit the lavender odor was, he had no answer.
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douglas adams, 'fir cone is an anagram of conifer, now don't tell me thats a coincidence!'
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Flotsam and Jetson Waifs found in the sea or on the shore. "Flotsam," goods found floating on the sea after a a wreck."Jetson," or Jetsam, things thrown out of a ship to lighten it. (Anglo-Saxon, flotan, to float; French, jeter, to throw out.) (See Ligan.)
My dictionary does give meaning of "waif" = anything found by chance that does not have an owner, but I have never seen it used except to mean a homeless parentless child.
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Flowers at Funerals The Greeks crowned the dead body with flowers, and placed flowers on the tomb also. The Romans decked the funeral couch with leaves and flowers, and spread flowers, wreaths, and fillets on the tomb of friends. When Sulla was buried as many as 2,000 wreaths were sent in his honour. Most of our funeral customs are derived from the Romans; as dressing in black, walking in procession, carrying insignia on the bier, raising a mound over the grave, called tumulus, whence our tomb.
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