Glossary : F
Fa': fall
Fa': lot: portion
Fa': to get; suit; claim
Faddom'd: fathomed
Fae: foe
Faem: foam
Faiket: let off: excused
Fain: fond: glad
Fainness: fondness
Fair fa': good befall! welcome
Fairin: a present from a fair
Fallow: fellow
Fa'n: fallen
Fand: found
Far-aff: far-off
Farls: oat-cakes
Fash: annoyance
Fash: to trouble; worry
Fash'd: fash't: bothered; irked
Fashious: troublesome
Fasten-e'en: Fasten's Even (the evening before Lent)
Faught: a fight
Fauld: the sheep-fold
Fauld: folded
Faulding: sheep-folding
Faun: fallen
Fause: false
Fause-house: hole in a cornstack
Faut: fault
Fautor: transgressor
Fawsont: seemly: well-doing; good-looking
Feat: spruce
Fecht: fight
Feck: the bulk: the most part
Feck: value: return
Fecket: waistcoat; sleeve waistcoat (used by farm-servants
as both vest and
jacket)
Feckless: weak: pithless:
feeble
Feckly: mostly
Feg: a fig
Fegs: faith!
Feide: feud
Feint: v fient
Feirrie: lusty
Fell: keen: cruel: dreadful:
deadly; pungent
Fell: the cuticle under the skin
Felly: relentless
Fen': a shift
Fen': fend: to look after; to care for;
keep off
Fenceless: defenseless
Ferlie: ferly: a wonder
Ferlie: to marvel
Fetches: catches: gurgles
Fetch't: stopped suddenly
Fey: fated to death
Fidge: to fidget: to wriggle
Fidgin-fain: tingling-wild
Fiel: well
Fient: fiend: a petty oath
Fient a: not a: devil a
Fient haet: nothing (fiend have it)
Fient haet o': not one of
Fient-ma-care: the fiend may care (I don't!)
Fier: fiere: companion
Fier: sound: active
Fin': to find
Fissle: tingle: fidget with delight
Fit: foot
Fittie-lan': the near horse of the hind-most pair
in the plough
Flae: a flea
Flaffin: flapping
Flainin: flannen: flannel
Flang: flung
Flee: to fly
Fleech: wheedle
Fleesh: fleece
Fleg: scare: blow: jerk
Fleth'rin: flattering
Flewit: a sharp lash
Fley: to scare
Flichterin: fluttering
Flinders: shreds: broken pieces
Flinging: kicking out in dancing; capering
Flingin-tree: a piece of timber hung by way of partition
between two horses
in a stable; a flail
Fliskit: fretted: capered
Flit: to shift
Flittering: fluttering
Flyte: scold
Fock: focks: folk
Fodgel: dumpy
Foor: fared (i e: went)
Foorsday: Thursday
Forbears: forebears: forefathers
Forby: forbye: besides
Forfairn: worn out; forlorn
Forfoughten: exhausted
Forgather: to meet with
Forgie: to forgive
Forjesket: jaded
Forrit: forward
Fother: fodder
Fou: fow: full (i e: drunk)
Foughten: troubled
Foumart: a polecat
Foursome: a quartet
Fouth: fulness: abundance
Fow: v fou
Fow: a bushel
Frae: from
Freath: to froth:
Fremit: estranged: hostile
Fu': full
Fu'-han't: full-handed
Fud: a short tail (of a rabbit or hare)
Fuff't: puffed
Fur: furr: a furrow
Fur-ahin: the hindmost plough-horse in the furrow
Furder: success
Furder: to succeed
Furm: a wooden form
Fusionless: pithless: sapless:
tasteless:
Fyke: fret
Fyke: to fuss; fidget
Fyle: to defile: to foul
