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Fun (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Fun

A cheat, or trick. Do you think to fun me out of it? Do you think to cheat me?—Also the breech, perhaps from being the abbreviation of fundament. I’ll kick your fun. Cant.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

See also the definition in Nathan Bailey's 1736 dictionary of canting and thieving slang.

Fumbler * To Funk

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Francis Grose was independently wealthy, having inherited money from his father, a jeweller. Finding himself overspending, he published a number of books; his Provincial Glossary seems to have been the starting-point for the Vulgar Tongue reproduced here.

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Fruitful Vine
Frummagemmed
Fubsey
Fuddle
Fudge
Fulhams
Full of Emptiness
Full March
Fumbler
Fun
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Funk
Furmen
Furmity
Fuss
Fussock
Fustian
Fusty Luggs
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