22 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. Fire. " As drunk as fire" mad drunk. Fire engine, a steam-engine. A fayourite sign for a public- house." Fire-pan, a fire-shoveL Fire-tail, the redstart Firk, V. to tease roughly by hand. F. C. Fiflh-£Etg, a fish-wife : more com- monly called Fish-jouBter. Fisb-jonsttng, part, hawking fish. Fisted, p. p, struck with the fist. " I fisted her." Fit, V, to prepare meat for cook- ing. *<When shall I >{< the dennar P" " Will 'ee ha* a pie fiUedf** " The devil wont come into Cornwall for fear of being put in a pie." Fitcher, a pole-cat. "Stinking like AfiicherJ* Fitchered, p. p, to he baulked ; to be stopped. *' Used in mining when some difficulty occurs in boring a hole for blasting.'* Ghirland. Fitty, adj, nice ; becoming ; clever. ** Your dress isn't look- ing /%," "He gov* a fitty answer.'* Fitty-ways, adv, properly. " Do behave fitty^ways*^ Flaad, p, p. as adj, puffed out with flatulency, as cattle after too much green food. Flaire, fat around a pig's kidney. Flam-new, adj, quite new. Flannin, flannel "A flannin shart." Flasket, a large basket with a handle at each end; a clothes basket. Flay-gerry (^ hard), a frolic ; a spree. Fleet, V. to gutter, as a candle in a draught "v. to float." W.N. Flem, an instrument for bleeding cattle. Flesh - mait, butcher's meat
- They don't ait flesh-tnaii once
a month.*' Fork Lb often spoken of as fieth in contradistinction to beef. Flenkan, a cross-cut that cuts off a lode (a vein) of metaL " He's cut out by the Jkukan/* Flied, p. p. flown. Flink, a fling. She went out witha;ltnik." Flink, V, to fling ; imp, Flinkl " She fiinkt out of the room."
- • She fiinkt off her hat.*
Flip-jack, a rude fireplace. Flisk, a large tooth-comb. Flitters, tatters. " She tore it to flitterBj* * ' Her dress is hanging in fiittera.** Flood-hatch, a flood-gate, phr, " It's raining a Jlood,'* Floor, a grass meadow. In mining, planks laid for dressiug ore. Flop, V. to drop clumsily. " He let un fiop on the planchea" (floor). Flopt, t;. imp, " Shejlopt down on her sait *' (seat). Flopper. an under petticoat Polwhele, Flora^in-distress. A woman with dishevelled hair is said to look like Flora-in-distress, Flosh, V, to spill ; to shake over.
- ' Don't fiosh the water on the
floor.'* Flonery-milk, hasty pudding. Flushed, p. p, as adj. fledged. "The birds have fiushed and flied*' (flown), Flnshet, a dam in a stream.
