Glossary

20 terms

• Failson (n.) /ˈfeɪl.sən/

  Male resident of Montpelier, so-called because he is typically the wastrell scion of one or more of the bourgeois triumpalist families predominant in Clifton.

• Farrow & Ball tones /ˈfær.əʊ ən ˈbɔːl ˈtəʊnz/

  Tastefully muted bourgeois shades. Applied by the narrator to Hawksmoor’s mature plumage.

• Fattitude (n.) /ˈfæt.ɪ.tjuːd/

  The forthright, not to say confrontational, not to say obnoxious demeanour of the fat acceptance fraternity or sorority.

• Felchers and fisters and fellativists /ˈfel.tʃəz ən ˈfɪs.təz ən fəˈleɪ.tɪ.vɪsts/

  Nocturnal congregants of Dogging Wood classified by preferred manual or oral speciality. Winter proves the stronger sectarian force.

• Felching (n.) /ˈfɛltʃɪŋ/

  Oral ingestion of small motile gamete from faecal drain following Congress.

• Fenetral (adj.) /fəˈnɛtrəl/

  Pertaining to windows [French].

  • French

• Fentanyl Evangelism (n. phrase) /ˈfɛntənɪl ɪˈvændʒəˌlɪzəm/

  Devotional fervour applied to the pursuit of synthetic opioids. Characteristic of Lady Snatch’s desperation. Contains no doctrine, only dosage.

• Filthocracy (n.) /fɪlˈθɒk.rə.si/

  Government by the perverse and flatulent. The Senseless Counterfeit posits this as the dominant regime of contemporary Bristol.

• Flâneur (n.) /flæˈnɜr/

  Idle pavement stroller or loafer [French].

  • French

• Flatulentia obstetrix incontinentiae (n. phrase) /ˌflætʃ.əˈlɛn.ti.ə ɒb.steɪˈtrɪks ɪnˌkɒn.tɪ.nɛn.tɪˈiː/

  Flatulence is incontinence’s midwife [Latin].

  • Latin

• Flatulist /ˈflæt͡ʃəlɪst/

  Professional or gifted breaker of wind. Marshall Petoman raises the practice to evidential significance.

• Flibbertigibbet /ˌflɪbətiˈdʒɪbɪt/

  A light, flighty or capricious person. In Mangotsfield, also a category capacious enough for whichever nuisance is currently being discussed.

• Folie de jeunesse /fɔ.li də ʒœ.nɛs/

  Youthful folly [French]. The retrospective category by which mature scoundrels convert old misconduct into biography.

• Fonctionnaire (n.) /ˌfɒŋk.sjɒˈnɛər/

  Manager. Bureaucrat. [French]

  • French

• Foule (n.) /fuːl/

  Crowd, with implications of overcrowding. See ‘comble’.

• Fournier’s Gangrene (n. phrase) /ˈfʊr.ni.eɪz ˈɡæŋ.ɡriːn/

  Gangrene affecting the genitals, a notorious victim whereof being Herod the manager of Pex ‘n’ Quads gym in Hotwells, q.v. Amoeba Dick.

• Franchement, je te trouve vachement chiant (n. phrase) /frɑːnʃ.mɑ̃ ʒə tə tʁuv vaʃə.mɑ̃ ʃjɑ̃/

  To be honest, you’re really pissing me off [French].

  • French

• Francis (The Choise of Valentines) /ˈfɹɑːnsɪs/

  Tomalin's elusive beloved in Nashe's Choise of Valentines. Pursued from rural retreat to brothel so that the dildo may enter English literary history.

• Freikörperkultur /ˈfʁaɪ̯kœʁpɐkʊlˌtuːɐ̯/

  Free-body culture [German]. Nudism with sufficient compound noun to pass for civilisation.

• Friend of Dorothy (n. phrase) /ˈfrɛnd əv ˈdɒr.ə.θi/

  Male homosexual. Alludes to the affection of members of the poor throwing community for The Wizard of Oz, and in particular for its protagonist Dorothy Gale, played by Judy Garland.