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A Glossary of the Scots Dialect |
| Fa' | to fall (upon), to obtain. |
| Fa'en | fallen. |
| Fa'n | fallen. |
| Faddom'd | fathomed. |
| Faddom't | fathomed. |
| Fae | foe. |
| Faem | foam. |
| Faiket | let off, excused. |
| Faikit | forgiven, excused. |
| Failin | failing. |
| Fain | fond, glad. |
| Fainness | fondness. |
| Fair | goodness. |
| Fair-fa' | may good befall. |
| Fairin | a present; a reward. |
| Fairly | completely. |
| Fallow | a fellow. |
| Fan | found. |
| Fand | found. |
| Far-aff | far-off. |
| Farl | portion of oat bread. |
| Farls | oat-cakes. |
| Fash | to trouble myself (Fash your thumb=trouble oneself the least). |
| Fash'd | fash't, bothered; irked. |
| Fashious | troublesome. |
| Fashous | troublesome. |
| Fasten-e'en | Fasten's Even (the evening before Lent). |
| Fasten-een | Fasten's eve (before Lent). |
| Fatt'rels | ribbon ends. |
| Faught | a fight. |
| Fauld | a fold. |
| Faulding | folding (Faulding Slap=the gate of the fold). |
| Faun | fallen. |
| Fause | false. |
| Fause-house | hole in a cornstack. |
| Faut | fault. |
| Fautor | one who faults, transgressor. |
| Fawsont | respectably. |
| Fearfu' | fearful. |
| Feat | spruce. |
| Fecht | to fight. |
| Feck | the greater portion. |
| Fecket | an undergarment with sleeves. |
| Feckless | ineffective. |
| Feckly | mostly, |
| Feg | a fig. |
| Fegs | faith! |
| Feide | feud. |
| Feint | v. fient. |
| Feirrie | lusty. |
| Fell | a low mountain; the flesh just below the skin; keen, biting; tasty. |
| Felly | relentless. |
| Fen | a shift, provision. |
| Fen' | a shift; fend, to look after; keep off. |
| Fenceless | defenseless. |
| Fend | to keep off; to live comfortably. |
| Fere | friend, companion. |
| Ferlie | a wonder. |
| Ferly | a wonder; to marvel. |
| Fetch't | pulled jerkingly. |
| Fetches | catches, gurgles. |
| Fey | fated. |
| Fidge | to fidget. |
| Fidgin-fain | fidgetting with eagerness. |
| Fiel | soft, smooth. |
| Fient | fiend, devil; hardly. |
| Fier | healthy; brother, friend. |
| Fiere | companion. |
| Fillie | a filly. |
| Fin' | find. |
| Fissle | bustle, rustle. |
| Fit | foot. |
| Fittie-lan | near horse of team pulling a plough. |
| Fittie-lan' | the near horse of the hind-most pair in the plough. |
| Fizz | to hiss. |
| Flae | a flea. |
| Flaffin | flapping. |
| Flainin | flannen, flannel. |
| Flang | did fling. |
| Flannen | flannel. |
| Flee | a fly. |
| Fleech | wheedle. |
| Fleech'd | flattered. |
| Fleesh | a fleece. |
| Fleg | a fright; a random stroke. |
| Fleth'rin | flattering. |
| Flewit | a sharp blow. |
| Fley | to scare. |
| Fley'd | frightened. |
| Flichterin | fluttering. |
| Flinders | shreds. |
| Flingin-tree | a flail. |
| Flinging | wild dancing (Flinging tree=flail). |
| Flinging-tree | a flail. |
| Fliskit | fretted and capered. |
| Flit | to shift. |
| Flittering | fluttering. |
| Flyte | to scold. |
| Fock | focks, folk. |
| Fodgel | plump. |
| Foggage | moss. |
| Foor | fared, went. |
| Foord | a ford. |
| Foorsday | Thursday. |
| Forbear | forebear, forefather. |
| Forbears | forebears, forefathers. |
| Forby | forbye, besides. |
| Forbye | besides. |
| Forfairn | worn out. |
| Forfoughten | fatigued. |
| Forgather | to meet, to fall in with. |
| Forgie | forgive. |
| Forjesket | jaded with fatigue. |
| Forrit | Forward. |
| Fother | fodder, |
| Fou | full; tipsy; foolish. |
| Foughten | troubled. |
| Foumart | a polecat. |
| Foursome | a quartet. |
| Fouth | abundance. |
| Fow | full measure of grain. |
| Frae | from. |
| Freath | to froth. |
| Fremit | strange, alien. |
| Frien' | friend. |
| Fu' | full. |
| Fu'-han't | full-handed. |
| Fud | hare's tail. |
| Fuff't | purred, blew. |
| Fur | furr, a furrow. |
| Fur-ahin | the hindmost plough-horse in the furrow. |
| Furder | furtherence, success. |
| Furm | wooden form or seat. |
| Furr | furrow. |
| Furr-ahin | hindmost horse on right hand of a team. |
| Fushionless | pithless. |
| Fusionless | pithless, sapless, tasteless, |
| Fyke | trouble, fuss. |
| Fyle | to soil, to make dirty. |
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