One of the earliest ancestors of our humble letter F was the Phoenician letter waw, which was assimilated into the early Greek alphabet more than 2,5 years ago. People think that the Phoenicians used their letters waw to represent a series of different sounds-including "U", "V" and "W"-so when they adopted it, the clever Greeks cleverly divided its uses into two. On the one hand, the Greek letter upsilon (Y) replaces the pronunciation of "u" and "v", while another letter digamma (F) takes over the sound of "w". Unfortunately, "W" (or, more precisely, lip approximation, if you want to acquire technology) was not the most widely used sound in ancient Greek, and digamma soon ceased to be used. But it was rescued by the Romans from the garbage of language. Their Latin letter V replaced the place where upsilon stopped, and let F stand for the new softer "V" sound-"F".
since then, the letter f has been used in the Roman alphabet, and now it accounts for about 2.5% of any page in written English on average-this number appears in such English words as for, if, from and of (the only English word in which f is pronounced as "v"). You can also expect it to start with about 3% of all the words in the standard dictionary, including the 4 wonderful F words listed here ...
1. Facetiae means "cleverness" or "skill" in Latin, and was later used to refer to a series of humorous proverbs in 16th century English. But in Victorian slang, things got worse because facetiae began to be used as a euphemism for pornographic literature.
2. Forgery
An 18th century word, which means forged signature.
3. A slip of the tongue
Also known as falliloquence, falliloquence is another word for lies and deceptive remarks. Fatiloquence or fatiloquy is another word for divination or predicting the future, and if you are flexible, you like to deliberately use ambiguous language to confuse people.
4. Eichhornia crassipes
fame means "hunger" in Latin, from which Famelic (an adjective meaning "related to hunger") and Famelicose (an 18th century word meaning "often hungry") are derived. ?
5. Family portrait
Blumble is the word "hand" in the 16th century (probably originally derived from the mispronouncing of the slang "fumble"), from which many equally convenient fam words were obtained in English: in itself, fam is gold and rings in 18th century English; Gloves were nicknamed "robbing family" in slang in the 19th century. In Victorian criminals, squeezing someone's family was to strangle them with their bare hands; Famgrasp means shaking hands to show agreement.
6. Familiarity
comes from a Latin word, which means "carrying". Family reports news from abroad.
7. Family disputes
An old cowboy slang nickname for whisky.
8. Fanfaronade
fanfaronade is synonymous with arrogant and self-exaggerated language in the 17th century. Similarly, fanfaron is an arrogant boaster.
9.Fang-Faker
Slang of Victorian dentists.
1. bohemian
If someone is willful, then they have broken their promise or oath, or they are disloyal or disloyal. An alliance, similarly, is a violation of an oath or a broken promise.
11. Latent
Shakespeare, used in Henry VI: Part 2, meaning "loitering and waiting to do something bad".
12. Fecennine
Nia, Fei Sen is a city of Etruscan, an ancient region in northern and central Italy, which was occupied by Etruscan civilization more than 2,5 years ago. With the expansion of the Roman Empire from Rome, it is believed that many local Etruscan songs and poems were adopted by Roman culture in this process. As we all know, these "Fescennine verses" were originally sung in large-scale celebrations such as harvest season or weddings, but gradually, they became less celebrated and more vulgar and noisy. In the end, the adjective fescennine is finally used to describe anything obscene, obscene or dissolute.
13. Phililu
Noisy noises or exclamations.
14. Fire-Scordel
An old English dialect refers to people who hang around in front of a stove all day. The dog that can do this is the fire board.
15.Firkytoodle
Touching or caressing someone is a mockery of them. It may have originated from the earlier work firk, which means "defeat".
16. Feltel
fidgeting or walking around distractedly is fidgeting, just like looking busy although doing little.
17. *** Spicy
Like flimflam, flam is a strange or whimsical idea-and anything flambuginous is "flame-like".
18. Ham
An ancient Scottish dialect is used to describe a well-dressed woman. It comes from flamfew, a 16th century word that means anything useless or trivial.
19. Flamingo
Flapdoodle is 19th century slang, which means nonsense or liar, so Flapdoodler is a spammer.
2. Flaunt-Tante
Properly, flaunt is a series of gorgeous words or languages.
21. Flaybottomist
Because they flogged unruly students, school teachers were nicknamed whippers in slang in the 18th century. More pleasant nicknames for teachers include pronoun tailor and grammar knight.
22. Flying mouse
In addition to flickermouse and flinder-mouse, flitter- mouse is a bat word in Tudor period.
23. flocinaucilliphilification
floccus (literally "a wisp"),? Naucum ("a little"),? Nihil ("nothing") and pilus ("a hair") are Latin words, which can basically be interpreted as "very little" or "nothing." The meaningless word floccinaucinihilification-apparently created by students studying Latin at Eton College in England-puts these four words in one noun, meaning "the act of estimating something as worthless". It is generally regarded as one of the longest words in English, and it is also one of the longest words in most dictionaries. floccinaucinihilipilification is related to the verbs in the 16th century in etymology ...
24. Floccipen
... which also means "consider insignificant".
25. Fluckadrift
An old word from northern Scotland means sudden haste or haste.
26. Flug-Fisted
Irish dialect, which means left-handed. ?
27. Flummaty-Gumption
An ancient Yorkshire dialect, which indicates a state of anxiety or excitement, or, by extension, sweating heavily.
28. Flutter drawer
Flunter is an old English dialect, which means loose fragments or something, or the untidy end of something, such as a rope or the undivided end of a rope. Derived from it, flutter-drawer is the kind of untidy and messy drawer in which you put all the odds and ends.
29. flurry-go-impossible
An ancient Cornish dialect that sounds very appropriate is used to express diarrhea.
3. Foster
Pickpocket or liar.
31. Stupidity
comes from stupidity. If you are stupid, then you like practical jokes.
32. Come with me, boys
In the 19th century, loose curly hair or soft hat ribbons hanging over a lady's back or shoulders were called the boys who came with me. There is an old myth that single girls will intentionally leave their hair or their hats as a signal that they are looking for any potential suitors of love, but it seems that this word has inspired this myth, not the other way around.
33. Drunk
There is no doubt that if you are drunk, then you are drunk.
34. Former Witt
People who knew before things happened. If you are stupid, by the way, then you are stupid or slow-thinking.
35. Foreign exchange
The "humorous pedantry" of a pair of scissors (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) is derived from a Latin word. Derived from it, if something is hard, then its shape is like a pair of scissors, and ...
36. Restrain
.............................................................................................................................. It comes from forficula, the Latin word for salamander (also from forfex), so it literally means "it feels like an insect crawling over your body".
37. All the best
A Scottish dialect meaning "exhausted" or "tired from work".
38. Fox fire
The phosphorescence emitted by dying embers is fox fire. Although it only exists in some local American dialects today, the word fox fire can be traced back to the late 14 s.
39. Futera
A 19th century word means weasel or ferret-therefore, metaphorically, it is a nickname for a thin-faced person.
4. Puzzle
Scottish dialect, which means just enough wine to make people feel slightly intoxicated.