F
World War I home Original Home Annotated F
F.A.
Field
Artillery; Fuck All; Fanny Adams; Nothing; vacuity.
FAG.
Cigarette.
FAGGED OUT.
Exhausted.
FAIR GO.
Equitable
treatment, a fair field and no favour.
FAKE.
False.
FALL TO A JOB.
To be
detailed to do a piece of work.
FALL TO THE JOKE.
To be
ordered to do something unpleasant. To have a joke played on one.
FANGS.
See "Put
the Fangs in."
FANNY DURAK.
The hanging
virgin and child of Albert Basilica. Frequently referred to as Annette Kellerman
i.e. the champion Lady diver.
FED UP.
Disgusted
and weary, surfeited, sick or tired.
FEED BAG.
A variety
of Gas Helmet used early in the war.
F.F.F.
Completely
miserable; frig[g]ed, fucked, and far from home; forlorn, famished, and far
from home.
FEVVERS.
A Cockney
woman.
FINANCE.
Lover,
corruption of "fiancee"
FILL-AN-EYE.
To punch
in the eye.
FILOOSH.
Money.
From the Arabic.
FINNY.
Finish.
From the French "FINIS."
FIXED BAYONET.
Vin Rogue
[sic] (red wine)
FLAG - think of the.
An exhortion
to do one's job. Mostly used jocularly.
FLAG WAGGER.
A Signaller.
FLAKER.
Synonymous
with "Gutzer."
Flaming Onions
FLARE KING.
A soldier
who fires rockets from the front line. Germans were frequently referred to
collectively as flare kings.
FLAT-FOOTED.
To go
flat-footed, is spoken of an airman without an aeroplane, or a member of the
tank corps travelling on foot.
Flattening out
FLAT SPIN.
To be
in difficulties. (Only applied to airmen)
FLEA BAG.
An officers
[sic] valise.
FLIP.
An aeroplane
flight.
FLOATING KIDNEY.
A soldier
unattached to any unit, or without definite duties.
FLOG.
To express
chargin [sic]; to sell an article.
FLOP.
To hit
or strike. "To flop him one."
FLOWERS ON HIS GRAVE.
Fastidious;
hard to please, also port holes in his coffin.
FLUTTER.
An attempt,
"give it a flutter."
FLY.
To be
no fool, to know a thing or two, to be fly, to give it a fly, to make an attempt.
FLY BOG.
Jam.
FLYING INCINERATOR.
An incendiary
shell.
FLYING-PIG.
A heavy
trench-mortar shell.
FOCH'S RESERVES.
A humourous
reference to the Chinese Labor Corps.
FOOT SLOGGERS.
Infantry.
FOOKER.
An English
Private.
F.O.Q.
Fly off
quickly; fuck off quickly. See P.O.Q.
FRAY BENTOS.
Very Good.
A brand of preserved meat. The phonetic similarity between the first words
of this name and the French "Tres Bein [sic]" caused its frequent
use in place of the latter.
FRAME-UP.
A scheme;
a conspiracy.
FREEZE -A.
A catch
word satirically applied to a popularity-hunter. Corruption of "For he
is a jolly good fellow."
FRESH FACES IN HELL.
Phrase
used after a successful attack to indicate that many Germans had been killed.
FRILL.
Flashness,
ceremonial.
FRITZ.
The German,
individually or collectively.
FROG - FROGGIE.
A Franc,
or an oak. A Frenchman.
FRONK.
A Franc.
FUNK.
High degree
of fright.
FUNK HOLE.
A Government
job or similar refuge used by a shirker, especially one anxious to avoid Military
Service; recess in a trench, or embankment into which a man could get for
partial shelter from shell fire.
FURPHY.
This term
originated in some of the camps of Australia, where the vehicles used for
scavenging and water supply purposes were made by Mr. Furphy of Shepparton,
Victoria, whose name was promiently [sic] painted thereon. This and the fact
of the unfounded rumors seemed as a rule, to originate among the sanitary
squad, or from conversation among men visiting latrines, caused the word to
be used in this way.
FURPHY-MONGER or King.
One who eagerly circulates "Furphys."
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