List of Cornish Dialect Words - F

F

  • Fains - children's truce term (east Cornwall)
  • Fall - autumn (south of a line from Mount's Bay to Launceston)
  • Figgy hobbin - lump of dough, cooked with a handful of raisins (raisins being "figs" and figs "broad raisins")
  • Fitty - proper, properly
  • Fizzogg - face (colloquial form of "physiognomy")
  • Flam-new - brand new (from Cornish language flamm noweth)
  • Fly, Flies - hands of a dial or clock
  • Folks - people (mid and east Cornwall)
  • Fradge - repair
  • Fuggan - pastry dinner-cake
  • Furze, furzy - gorse, covered with gorse, as in the local saying at Stratton "Stratton was a market town when Bude was just a furzy down", meaning Stratton was long established when Bude was just gorse-covered downland. (A similar saying is current at Saltash about Plymouth.)

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