Part 12 (2/2)

_Ferret_, a pawnbroker or trades spendthrifts upon trust, at excessive rates, and then hunts them without mercy, and often throws them into jail, where they perish for their debt

_Fidla every finger a fish-hook

_Flag_, a groat

_Flash_, a periwig

_Flaybottomist_, a bum-thrasher, or schoolmaster

_Flick_, old-fashi+oned, or sly

_Flicker_, a drinking-glass

_Flicking_, to cut, cutting; as flick me some panea and cassan, cut me some bread and cheese

_Flute_, the recorder of London, or any other town

_Flyers_, shoes or boots

_Fogus_, tobacco: tip landers_, Dutched

_Furar

_Gan_, a e_, a liquor pot, or a tobacco pipe

_George_, a half-crown piece

_Geentleipseys, called pedlars's French, St Giles's Greek, and the Flash tongue: also the e of Geber, used by chee, forlish word; in which case it is called the gibberish of the letter inserted; if _f_, it is the _f_ gibberish; if _g_, the _g_ gibberish; as in the sentence, How do you do? Howg dog youg dog?

_Gigg_, a nose: snitchell his gigg; fillip his nose: grunter's gigg; a hog's snout Gigg is also a high one-horse chaise

_Gipseys_, a set of wandering vagrants found in the country When a fresh recruit is ad oath, adh the annexed foriven hi up in thehis face to the di, he repeats the following oath, which is dictated to him by some experienced member of the fraternity:

I, Crank Cuffin, do swear to be a true brother, and that I will in all things obey the coreat tawney prince, and keep his council, and not divulge the secrets of my brethren

I will never leave nor forsake the company, but observe and keep all the tiht in every place whatever

I will not teach any one to cant, nor will I disclose any of our ainst all that shall oppose hi to the uting to us, to be abused by any strange abrams, rufflers, hookers, pailliards, swaddlers, Irish toyles, swigeons, patricoes, or curtails; but will defend hiainst all other outliers whatever I will not conceal aught I win out of libkins, or from the ruffmans, but I will preserve it for the use of the company