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 Filtry. Rubbish. “There's a lot of filtry about this house.” N.W. 
_ Fine. Of potatoes, very small. N.W. 
“Fire-deal. A good deal. (H.) 
@ Firk. (1) To worry mentally, to be anxious, as “ Don’t firk so,” or “ Don’t 
firk yourself.” N.W. (Marlborough.) 
(2) To be officiously busy or inquisitive, as “I can’t abear that there 
. chap a-comin’ firkin’ about here.” N.W. 
 *Fitten. A pretence. (A.B.) 
Flag. The blade of wheat. (Great Estate, ch. 1.) N.W. 
Flake. A frame, barred with ash or willow spars, somewhat resembling a 
light gate, used as a hurdle where extra strength is needed. (Bevis, ch. 12; 
Wild Life, ch. 4.) N.W. 
- Flare. (1) The flick, or internal fat of a pig, before it is melted down to make 
4 lard. 
(2) The caul, or thin skin of the intestines of animals, used for covering 
“bake-faggots,” etc. N.&S. W. 
a Flews. A sluice is occasionally so called. See Flowse. S.W. 
'Filewy. Of a horse, troubled with looseness. ‘“‘He’s what we calls a flewy 
4 ’oss, can’t kip nothing in ’im.” cf. North of Eng. Flewish, morally or 
5 physically weak. 
Flick, Fleck. The internal fat of a pig. (A.B.) N.W. 
4 F lig-me-jig. A girl of doubtful character. “She’s a reg’lar flig-me-jig.” 
- Flirk. To flip anything about (H.), as a duster in flicking a speck of dust off 
 atable. (Village Miners.) N.W. 
*Flitch. Pert, lively, officious. (A.B.H.) 
Fitters. Pieces. A cup falls, and is broken “ aal to viitters.” N.W. 
—*Floating or Flowing meadow. A meadow laid up in ridges with 
% water-carriages on each ridge and drains between. (D.) A lowland meadow 
___watered from a river, as opposed to catch-meadow. (Annals of Agric.) 
5 Flop-a-dock. Digitalis purpurea, L., Foxglove. S.W. (Hants bord.) 
‘ Hiowse. (1) v. act. You “flowse,” or splash, the water over you in a bath. 
N. & S.W, 
_ (2) +». meut. Water is said to be “flowsing down” when rushing very 
strongly throughamill hatch. A horse likes to “ flowse about” in a pond. S.W. 
(3) . The rush of water through a hatch. S.W. 
(4) x. Occasionally also applied te the narrow walled channel between 
hatch gate and pool below. S.W. 
f) ump. “To come down flump,” to fall heavily (A.B.); also used alone as a 
verb, as “she vlumped down in thie chair.” N.& S.W. 
