132 Contriduiions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 



FeSS. Add:—{^) Proud, stuck-up, S.W. 



Fingers-and-Thumbs. Blossoms of Tllex Huropceus, L., Common Furze 



(Slow). S.W. 



Fitty. In good health. " How be 'ee P " " Ter'ble fitty." N. W. 



*Flabber-gaster. n. Idle talk (Slow). S.W. 



Jc lake Add : — " Flake " hurdles are used for cattle, the ordinary sheep 



hurdles being too weak for the purpose. 

 Flamtag. A slatternly woman. N.W. (Huish, etc.) 



Flick, Fleck, (i) Add-.— s.w. 



* (2) Add -.—v. To flare (Slow). S.W. 



FlitmoUSe. The bat. N.W. (Marlborough.) 



Floppetty. adj. Of a woman, untidy, slatternly in dress or person. S.W. 



Flucksey. adj. " A flucksey old hen," i.e., a hen who makes a great fuss 



over her chickens. S.W. (Bishopstrow, etc.) 



Cope's Sants Glossary has : — " Flucks, to peck iu anger like a hen." 



Flunk, ^rfi:— Vlonker (Slow). s.w. 



Fog. V. To give fodder to cattle. N. & S.W. 



Fog off. To damp off, as cuttings often do in a greenhouse. N.W. (Marl. 



borough.) 



Folly. Occasionally used of a circular plantation of trees on a hill, as " Harn- 

 ham Folly." This seems distinct from its more general use as applied to 

 a tower or other building. S.W. 



Fore-eyed. Fore-seeing, apt to look far ahead. S.W. 



Fore- spur. A fore-leg of port. S.W. 



*Fodge (rarely Fadge). In packing fleeces of wool, when the quantity 

 is too small to make up a full " bag " of 240Ibs., the ends of the bag are 

 gathered together as required, and the sides skewered over them, thus 

 forming the small package known as a " fodge." N.W. 



FoSSel, Foldsail. Place this under Foldsail, and add:— "A fold 

 stake, locally called a 'iossle.' "—Wilts Arch. Mag., xxi., 132. The 

 "fossels" means \hQ fold-shores, or the stakes to which the hurdles are 

 shored up, and fastened with a loose twig wreath at the top." — Ibid, xvii., 

 304. 



Froar. Add :— s.w. 



Fur. This should be struck out, as being general English, 



Froughten. Add-.-^.yf. 

 Fuzz-ball. Add:-^.y^. 

 Galley-crow. ^cM:-s.w. 



