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FERBLET :  noun  an effeminate male. Compare DRUGGEL, GORP, MEACOCK, NESH

. . . every last ferblet . . . had the distinct impression he was a born gentleman. . . .

--Theroux, Darconville's Cat, p. 303.

FERIAL :  adj  referring to a nonfeast day

. . . those graceful and tiny observances that somehow connote aspiration and make every ferial act festal.

--Theroux, Darconville's Cat, p. 96.

FLOCCILLATE :  verb  to twitch aimlessly. VELLICATIVE, adj. Compare VELLICATION

. . . floccillating his hard hat (Mr. Graves always took off his hard hat, even in the open air, when in speech with his betters). . . .

--Beckett, Watt, p. 144.

FOTZEPOLITIK :  noun  from Bavarian and Austrian slang for "cunt"; therefore, "cuntocracy" or "pussy politics." Compare COUN, COUNTRY MATTERS, COYNTE, DELTA, ESCUTCHEON, FURBELOW, MERKIN, QUIM, QUIMTESSENCE

Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davis. . . . Much more than just whores. They put the English-speaking world back into the grand tradition of Fotzepolitik.

--Koster, The Dissertation, p. 282.

FRATCH : noun  a squabble, a quisquous quarrel, contretemps. Compare BATRACHOMYOMACHIA, QUISQUOUS, TIRRIT

--What fratch! Sint Anton said, tickling his pig on the tummy.

--Davenport, "The Dawn in Erewhon,"
Tatlin!, p. 219.

FREMITUS :  noun  dull roar, murmur, continuous noise. FREMESCENT, adj. See also PATIBULARY

FRICATIVE :  adj  rubbing. Compare EUTRIPSIA, FROTTAGE, TRIBADISM

His fricative finger has stopped all the same. "She is wet," he says, grinning to conceal distaste.

--Nye, Merlin, p. 19.

FROTTAGE, FROTTING :  noun  rubbing, caressing, stroking especially with a sexual connotation. Compare FRICATIVE, TRIBADISM

. . . the frottage of a conjuror's thumb dissolving a coin. . . .

--Nabokov, Ada, p. 420.

. . . while Alex and Anna occupied the bed, he had not yet heard anything which sounded like cheerful frotting, the old springs zithering away.

--Burgess, Honey for the Bears, p. 147.

FUBSY :  adj  short and fat. Compare PUDSY, PYKNIC

. . . she was nothing but a fubsy pig-pink whorelet. . . .

--Nabokov, Ada, p. 33.

As for Callinan, who was a bachelor, he knew little of the blandishments preliminary to the radical act, never having hunted anything other than fubsy totties†, or slatterns harvested on pile of hay or tavern tables still greasy with everything.

--Queneau, We Always Treat Women Too Well, p. 86.

FUGLE :  verb  to cheat, to trick actively, especially in "the sense of extra-marital action" (Koster). FUGLING, noun. See also BUGLE. Compare COG

. . . all the world knew of Irene's flagrant fuglings. . . .

--Koster, Mandragon, p. 324.

FURBELOW :  noun  1) a flounce, pleat or border on a gown or dress, often referring to unnecessary, frivolous decoration; 2) the pudendum. "The line referred to I think was a catch (or glee) of Purcell's: 'Adam caught Eve by the fur below/And that is the oldest catch we know'" (Gaddis). Compare COUN, COUNTRY MATTERS, COYNTE, DELTA, ESCUTCHEON, MERKIN, QUIM, QUIMTESSENCE

If she is only a woman (but a good cigar is a smoke) with Eve caught by the furbelow, Hae cunni (the oldest catch we know). . . .

--Gaddis, The Recognitions, p. 392.

FUSTILUG :  noun  a fat sloppy woman. See COG Compare DRUGGEL, FUBSY.

FUTTER :  verb  from French "foutre," to fuck. "Burton uses it throughout his Arabian Nights" (Koster).

Then she would have me futter Mrs. Ford, while the two of them wriggled about poking their fingers up each other's arses.

--Nye, Falstaff, p. 7.

. . . he took the steel coffer out of its casket, unlocked the seven locks with seven keys, fetched out and futtered the girl he'd stolen on her wedding night. . . .

--Barth, Chimera, p. 43.

FYLFOT :  noun  a swastika, grammadion, a cross with right angle turns

The trouble with that damned swastika was that it was a very satisfying symbol and very ancient . . . Medieval scribes filled in spaces with it and called it a fylfot.

--Burgess, Earthly Powers, p. 343