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Fiddle - A
horse's head.
Fiddle Faddle - Trifling discourse,
nonsense
Fight like
Kilkenny Cats - Fight like hell.
Fill a Blanket
- Roll a cigarette.
Find One's Self - To provide for
one's self through labor and wages.
Fine as cream gravy
- Very good, top notch.
Finefied - Made fine, dandified.
Finical - Nice, foppish, pretending to
superfluous elegance.--Johnson.
Fire-New - Brand new.
Firewater - Liquor
First-Swathe - First quality.
Fish
- A
cowboy's rain slicker, from a rain gear manufacturer whose
trademark was a fish logo. "We told him it looked like rain, but left
his fish in the wagon anyhow."
Fish or Cut
Bait - Do it or quit talking about it.
Fit
- Often
used instead of “fought.”
Fit - A short return after
intermission, a turn, a period or interval. “I almost lost my crops
after that fit of cold weather.”
Fits And Starts - At short and sudden
intervals interruptedly.
Fit - Ashort return after intermission,
a turn, a period or interval. “I almost lost my crops after that fit of
cold weather.”
Fits And Starts - At short and sudden
intervals interruptedly.
Five Beans in the
Wheel - Five cartridges in the six chambers of a rvolver.
Westerners often left the chamber under the hammer empty for safety
reason.
Fix - A condition, predicament,
dilemma.
Fix One's Flint - To settle, to do for,
to dish.
Fixin' - Intending. "I'm fixin' to get
supper started."
Fixings or Fixins' - Cooked food, also called "Doings." Arrangements,
embellishments, trimmings, garnishings.The term was also used for the
tobacco and paper needed to roll cigarettes.
Fix One’s Flint - To settle a matter.
Flack - Sales
talk, advertising, exaggeration.
Flannel Mouth - An
overly smooth or fancy talker, especially politicians or salesmen. "I
swear that man is a flannel-mouthed liar."
Flap-Jack - A fried cake, pancake,
fritter.
Flat - A foolish fellow, a simpleton.
Also refers to a flat-bottomed boat.
Flats - Low lands, valley
Flat Out - To collapse, to prove a
failure.
Flea-Trap -
Cowboy's
bedroll.
Flinders - Shreds, splinters, broken
pieces
Fling - A sneer or contemptuous remark
Flitter - A corruption of the word
fritter, a pancake.
Flummux - Perplex, embarrass, put to a
stand.
Flunk Out - To retire through fear, to
back out.
Flusteration - Heat, hurry, confusion
Fob Off - To delude by a trick.
Fogy - A stupid fellow, as, “He is an
old fogy.”
Folded Up - A horse bucking.
Fore-Handed - To be in good
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