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Emmet. Add :—Also used in 8. Wilts. 
En. (1) Add as examples :—Wenchen, girls; Bluen, blossoms ; 
N aas’n, nests (rarely heard, Westises being the usual form) ; Pigs’- 
souseD, pigs’-ears. “In North Wilts . . . . the formation of the 
Plural by affixing en to the Noun is almost universal, as house housen, ete.” 
—Cunnington MS. 
(2) Add:—* Almost as universal too is the transformation of the Sub- 
stantive into an adjective by the same terminationas . ... @ Leatheren 
Shoe, an elmen Board, etc.” —Cunnington MS. 
Add:—(3) “The pronoun Possessive too is formed in the same way, as 
hisn hern Ourn theirn.”—Cunnington MS. See Pronouns. 
Even-ash. Ash-leaves with an equal number of leaflets, carried by children 
in the afternoon of 29th May. See Shitsac. N.W. 
F. F for th. Examples :—Fust, thirst ; afurst, athirst, An old characteristic 
of the Western and South Western groups of dialect. 
Fall about. ». Of a woman, to be confined. ‘‘ His wife bin an’ fell about 
laas’ night.” N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
*Fardingale. Add:—The old form is Farding-deal (Wr.). Compare 
Thurindale, etc. “1620. Itm, to the same Thomas & Nicholas Lea for 
theire helpe to laye the Acres into ffarendells.”— Records of Chippenham, 
p. 202. ‘1649. Twoe ffarthendels of grasse.”—bid, p. 217. 
Fess. Add :—(2) Cocky, impudent, confident. Also used in Hants. S.W., oc- 
casionally. 
Fiddle-strings. The ribs of the Plantain leaf, when pulled out. See 
Cat-gut. N.W. 
Figged (two syll.). Spotted all over, as a pudding is with plums. S.W. 
A true-born Moonraker, describing his first night in “ Lunnon,” where he 
made the acquaintance of numerous members of the “ Norfolk-Howard” 
family (Cimex lectularius), described his face as being “ vigged aal auver 
wi’ spots an’ bumps afore marning.” 
*Fitten. Add :—* He doth feed you with fittons, figments, and leasings.”— 
Cynthia's Revels. 
Flake. Add:—(2) v. To make “flakes.” Flaking is hurdle-work. N.W. 
Flewy. Add :—In Hants a horse of weakly constitution is said to be flue or 
Sluey. (Cope.) 
Flirk. 4dd:—Flirt is a S. Wilts form of the word. 
*Flitch. (1) Add :—* Right flygge and mery.”—Paston Letters, iv., 412. 
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