Reverse Dictionary: FA – FAH

FABLE – adjectives
– AFFABULATORY †* of the nature of the moral of a fable; having a moral …1652
– APOLOGAL †* of the nature of an apologue or fable …1652
– APOLOGICAL † of the nature of an apologue, parable or fable …1623
– FABULAR pert. to a fable …1684
– FABULISTIC †* devoted to the composition of fables or apologues …1630
– FABULOSE † fond of fables, myths, or enigmas …1677
fable – nouns 
– AFFABULATION † the moral of a fable …1649
– FABULATION † the act of fabulating; the moralizing of fables …1727
– FABULOSITY 1. fondness for narrating or inventing fables …1599
2. † a fable …1601
– RANE idle, unmeaning talk frequently repeated; a frequent repetition of the same sound; a fable …1773 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TALE IN A TUB, A a fable; an old wife’s tale …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
fable – person
– FABLE-MONGER one who invents or repeats fables …1678
– FABLER † a writer of fables or apologues …1382
– FABULATOR one who fabulates or relates fables; a story-teller …1604
– FABULIST  one who relates fables or legends – a writer or teller of apologues or parables …1593
fable – verbs 
– FABULATE † to relate as a tale or myth; to talk or narrate in fables …1616
– FABULIZE † to invent fables; to relate as legend …1612
 
FABRICATE – verbs
– FANGLE † to fashion, to fabricate; to trick out …1615 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– VAMP UP to concoct a false charge, etc.; to fabricate; to trump up …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
FABRICATED – adjectives
– HAND-WROUGHT fabricated by hand …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– VAMPED-UP of a story, etc.: invented, fabricated, trumped up …1802-12
 
FABRICATION – nouns
– EFFECTION † fabrication, formation, production …1430
 
FABULOUS – adjectives
– ABFAB absolutely fabulous …1950s sl., orig. Aust. sl.
– FAB fabulous, wonderful …1957 sl.
– FABBO fabulous, wonderful …1960s sl.
– FABBY fabulous, wonderful …1960s sl.
– FABOO fabulous …1999 US gay sl.
– FANTABULOUS very good, fantastic, fabulous …1958 US sl.
– FLY attractive, good-looking; hence, excellent, fabulous …1980 sl.
– UNDEEMIS extraordinary, incredible, fabulous, incalculable, immense; what cannot be reckoned …1871 Sc.
– UNDEEMOUS extraordinary, incredible, fabulous, incalculable, immense; what cannot be reckoned …1871 Sc.
– UNDOMIOUS extraordinary, incredible, fabulous, incalculable, immense; what cannot be reckoned …1871 Sc.
– UNDOOMIS extraordinary, incredible, fabulous, incalculable, immense; what cannot be reckoned …1871 Sc.
– UNDUMIOUS extraordinary, incredible, fabulous, incalculable, immense; what cannot be reckoned …1871 Sc.
– UNDUMOUS extraordinary, incredible, fabulous, incalculable, immense; what cannot be reckoned …1871 Sc.
 
FACE – adjectives
– AIKER of the face: sharp, keen, pointed …1912 Sc.
– ASPECTABUND †* expressive in face; exhibiting one’s feelings through the eyes or face …1708
– ALL IN A HATTER of the face: entirely covered with any eruption, as smallpox …1883 Sc.
– BABOON-FACED having a face like that of a baboon; very ugly …1942 US sl.
– BACON-FACE having a fat sleek face …1684
– BACON-FACED having a fat sleek face; heavy jowled …c1600
– BALD-FACED said jokingly of a person’s face …1969 Amer. dial.
– BANNOCK-FACED having a flat face and a short nose …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BAUSON-FACED fat-faced …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BAWF-FACED fat-faced, ruddy …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BLACK-FACED having a dark or gloomy face or aspect …1581
– BLOISENT of the face: red, swollen, whether by weather or intemperance …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLOWZY having a red or flushed face …1778
– BOOT-FACED grim-faced, sad-faced; with an expressionless face …1942 colloq.
– BRANDY-FACED red-faced: generally said of one who is in the habit of drinking spirits in excess …1861
– BRAN-FACED freckle-faced …1890 Eng. dial.
– BROSY-FACED having a fat, flaccid face …1823 Sc.
– CHITTY 1. of the face: lean and pinched …1616
2. of the face: puny, childish, baby-like …1755
– CHUFFY † fat; swollen or puffed out with fat, especially of the cheeks; plump-cheeked, round-faced; chubby …1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– DEAD † of the face: deadly pale, wan …c1386
– DISH-FACED having a slightly concave face …1883 Amer. dial.
– FARTHING-FACED having pinched features …L19 sl.
– FULL-FACED having a full or plump face …E17
– HACKSEY-LOOKED having a coarse visage, gruff …Bk1905 Sc.
– HALF-FACED having a thin, pinched face …1595
– HATCHET-FACED having a narrow, sharp face …a1700
– HATCHETY of the face: thin and sharp …1851
– HEATHER-FACED rough-faced, stubbly …Bk1902 Eng. dial.  
– HEDDER-FACED rough-faced, unshaven …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILL-FACED having an unpleasing face or aspect; ugly …1590
– LANTERN-JAWED having a long, thin face, giving a hollow appearance to the cheeks …1707
– MAPLE-FACED † having a spotted face …1607
– MOON-FACED Japanese-faced …L19 Brit. sl.
– MOTLEY of someone’s face: dirty, smeared …1899 Amer. dial.
– MUFFIN-FACED 1. having a fat face, or a face with protruding muscles …M18 sl.
2. having a foolish or expressionless face …M18 sl.
– NARROW-CHINED thin-faced …1889 Eng. dial.
– PAEWAE of a person: pallid, white-faced, sickly; drooping, spiritless …1898 Sc.
– PAPER-FACED having a thin or pale face …1597
– PEW-WEW of a person: pallid, white-faced, sickly; drooping, spiritless …1894 Sc.
– POKER-FACED without expression; showing a neutral mask …1923 Amer. sl.
– POW-WOW † of a person: pallid, white-faced, sickly; drooping, spiritless …1739 Sc.
– PUGGY resembling the face or nose of a monkey or pug-dog; having such a face or nose …1722
– PUTTY-FACED having a colourless and expressionless face; white-faced: used contemptuously …1826
– RADDLED of a face: much made-up …c1920 colloq.
– REEDENT red-faced …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– RUBICUND of the face: reddish, flushed, especially as the result of good living; having a highly coloured complexion; red-faced …1696
– SANGUINE red in the face …1684
– SNOUT-FAIR † having a fair countenance; fair-faced, comely, pretty, handsome, good-looking; in frequent use in the 16th and early 17th century, usually with some disparaging suggestion …1530
– SUETY pale-faced …1801
– TALLOW-FACED having a pale, yellowish-white face …1592
– THIN-CHOPPED small-faced …1874 Eng. dial.
– THRAWN-FACED having distorted features; surly-faced …1793 Sc.
face – nouns
– AIRS AND GRACES faces …L19 Brit. rhyming sl.
– ANSINE † a person’s face …a1200 
– BACON-BONCE the face …1950s UK juvenile sl.
– BACON-FACE a fat face; a person having a fat face …1990 US sl.
– BEAK the nose; the face …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOAT-RACE the face …1958 Brit. rhyming sl.
– CADGING-FACE an expression designed to elicit sympathy …E19 sl.
– CHAMBER a person’s face …1969 Amer. dial.
– CHART the face …1900s US sl.
– CHERRY a blush; a red face …2001 UK sl.
– CHITTY-FACE † a term of reproach or contempt; a thin, pinched, or childish face; one who has a thin, pinched face; a puny child with a little face; a pitiful, wretched, sneaking fellow …1601 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– CHUMP the head, the face …1859 sl.
– CLOCK the face …1918 sl.
– DIAL the face …1842 sl.
– DISHED FACE a face which appears slightly concave …1878 Amer. dial.
– DISH FACE a face which appears slightly concave …1898 Amer. dial.
– EEK the face …1966 UK back slang (Ecaf)
– EKE the face …1966 UK back slang (Ecaf)
– ESAFF the face …L19 back-slang
– FACE LIKE A BAGFUL OF SPANNERS, A a face hard and rough; applied mostly to women …1975 sl.
– FACE LIKE A BAG OF ARSES, A an ugly face …2003 UK sl.
– FACE LIKE A BAG OF SPANNERS, A a hard and rough face; mostly used when describing a woman …1975 UK sl.
– FACE LIKE A BULLDOG, A an ugly face; chiefly applied to a girl or woman …2003 UK sl.
– FACE LIKE A BULLDOG CHEWING A WASP, A an ugly face; chiefly applied to a girl or woman …2003 UK sl.
– FACE LIKE A BULLDOG LICKING PISS OFF A NETTLE, A an ugly face; chiefly applied to a girl or woman …2003 UK sl.
– FACE LIKE A BULL’S BUM, A a very ugly face …2000s NZ sl.
– FACE LIKE A FESTERING PICKLE, A a face that is covered in severe acne …2000s NZ sl.
– FACE LIKE A LEPER LICKING PISS OFF A THISTLE, A an ugly face; chiefly applied to a girl or woman …2003 UK sl.
– FACE LIKE A MILKMAN’S ROUND, A a long face …c1950 sl.
– FACE LIKE AN ABANDONED QUARRY, A a very ugly face …2000s NZ sl.
– FACE LIKE A SCRUBBED HAMMOCK, A a pale, sour-looking face …c1920 Royal Navy usage
– FACE LIKE A SEA-BOOT, A a long-drawn ‘fathom of misery’; a miserable or glum face …c1930 sl.
– FACE LIKE A SLAPPED ARSE, A a very miserable-looking countenance …1999 UK sl.
– FACE LIKE A YARD OF PUMP-WATER, A a ‘long’ face; a miserable or glum face …20C colloq.
– FACE OF CLAY, THE a solid, immovable countenance …1895 Eng. dial.
– FACE THAT WOULD STOP A CLOCK, A a very ugly face …1891 Amer. sl.
– FACIES † the face, countenance …1611 humorous
– FARDRY † the act of painting the face, the effect produced by this …c1430
– FARE the countenance, the face …Bk1900 Eng. dial..
– FASHION † face, features …c1300
– FATCHA the human face …20C sl.
– FAVOUR the face, countenance …1525 arch.
– FAX † the face; used derisively …1513
– FIGURE-HEAD the face …1826 nautical sl.
– FIZ the face …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FIZZ the face …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FIZZOG the face; the expression on the face …1811 UK sl.
– FRIDAY-FACE † a grave, dismal, or gloomy expression of the countenance; a gloomy, dejected-looking or miserable-looking man or woman …1592
– GAME FACE one’s public face …1980s US Black sl.
– GIGGLEMUG an habitually smiling face …Bk1909 sl.
– GLASS CASE a face …M19 rhyming sl.
​- GLOSSINS flushings in the face …1825 Sc.
– HAFFET the temple; the side of the face; generally used in plural …1768 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HALE the face …2002 UK rhyming sl. (Hale and Pace)
– HALE AND PACE the face …2002 UK rhyming sl.
– HALF-CHEEK † a face in profile, a side-face …1588
– HALF-FACE a thin face …1595
– HATCHET-FACE a narrow and very sharp face …1650-66
– INDEX the face …1818 sl.
– INDOOR FACE the face of one not exposed to the weather …1895 Eng. dial.
– JACK-KNIFE FACE a thin, pointed face …M19 US sl.
– JIB the face …Bk1896 sl.
– KABEEZER the face …1960s US sl.
– KIP the face …1990s Sc.
– KISSER the face …1892 sl.
– KNOCKER-FACE an ugly face, like an old-fashioned knocker; an ugly-faced person …c1870 sl.
– LEER † the face, countenance; hence, look or appearance of the face and skin, hue, complexion …a700
– LUSH MUSH a pretty face …Bk1942 US sl.
– MAG the face …L19 sl.
– MALMSEY-FACE a face inflamed by drink …1611
– MAP the face …1908 sl.
– MAPLE FACE † a spotted face …1633
– MARRIAGE FACE a miserable face …L19 UK middle class usage
– MASARD the face; hence, the nose …1602
– MASK the face, without any kind of disguise …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAZARD the face; hence, the nose …1602
– MAZZARD the head or face; hence, the nose …1602
– MEASLE-FACE a face covered with red pimples …1806 Eng. dial.
– MOEY the face …1859 sl.
– MOOE the face …1859 sl.
– MOOEY the face …1859 sl.
– MOOSH the mouth or face …1859 US sl.
– MOP a person’s face …1966 Amer. dial.
– MUD-FACE one whose facial features are always cloudy in expression; a person’s face …1966 Amer. dial.
– MUFFIN-COUNTENANCE 1. an expressionless face …1777 Brit. sl.
2. a hairless face …1823 Brit. sl.
– MUFFIN-FACE 1. an expressionless face …1777 Brit. sl.
2. a foolish or childish face …M18 sl.
3. a hairless face …1823 Brit. sl.
– MUG a face, esp. an unattractive one …1708 sl.
– MUSH the mouth or face …c1790 colloq.
– NEB † the face …c897
– NEBSHAFT † countenance, face …a1225
– NIB the face; the mouth; the nose; usually of a woman …Bk1902 colloq.
– NOVICES CHASE the face …Brit. rhyming sl.
– MUSH the face …1859 sl.
– PAN a person’s face …c1886 US sl.
– PHIZ the face …1688 arch. sl.
– PHIZIOG the face …1965 Amer. dial.
– PHIZOG the face …1811 sl.
– PHIZOGOMY the face …1965 Amer. dial.
– PHYSCOGNAMY the face …1965 Amer. dial.
– PHYSMAHOGANY the face …1965 Amer. dial.
– PHYSOG the face; the expression on the face …1811 UK sl.
– POKER FACE an expressionless face; neutral mask …1885 Amer. sl.
– PONUM the face or head …L19 Aust. sl.
– PUMPKIN-FACE a round face with no expression on it …1881
– PUSS the face …1890 sl. chiefly US
– RACK FACE lines on your face left from a blanket, sheet, or pillow …1996 US sl.
– REWARD † an aspect, a look; the face …1790 Eng. dial.
– RICH-FACE a red face …c1696 sl.
– ROACH-AND-DACE the face …Bk1903 rhyming sl.
– RUM PHIZ an odd face or countenance …c1780 sl.
– RUM PHYZ an odd face or countenance …c1780 sl.
– SATIN AND LACE the human face …1998 rhyming sl.
– SIDE-FACE the human face in profile …1696
– SIGNBOARD the face …c1870 sl.
– SNOUT-PIECE the nose; the face …1621 
– SPLATTER-FACE † a broad flat face …1707
– SUET FACE a face of a pale complexionless appearance …1897
– TALLOW-FACE † a pale, yellowish-white face; hence a person having such a face; a term of contempt …1592 now rare or obs.
– TANSY-FACE a freckled face …1972 Sc.
– TODDY BLOSSOM a red face caused by the bursting of blood vessels through excessive long-term drinking …19C sl.
– TORN FACE a sulky, peevish face; a person with a sulky, peevish face …1968 Sc.
– UGLY PLUG an ugly face …19C US sl.
– WRONG FOUNT an ugly human face …1933 printers’ sl.
face – person
– ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE a white-faced person …Bk1921 sl.
– BABY-FACE a person with a smooth rounded face like a baby’s …1726
– BACON-FACE a fat face; a person having a fat face …1990 US sl.
– BAMSEY a fat, red-faced woman …Bk1873 Eng. dial.
– BAWHEAD a person with a large round face; also, a stupid person; frequently used as a term of mild abuse …1985 Sc. colloq.
– BEER BOTTLE a stout, red-faced man …Bk1909 UK sl.
– BROCKIE a person with a dirty face …Bk1908 Sc.
– BROOKIE a child having a dirty face …Bk1908 Sc.
– CALF’S HEAD a white-faced man with a large head …c1860 sl.
– CHITTY-FACE † a term of reproach or contempt; a thin, pinched, or childish face; one who has a thin, pinched face; a puny child with a little face; a pitiful, wretched, sneaking fellow …1601 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– FACE-PAINTER one who applies paint to the face …1847
– HALF-FACED GROAT a contemptuous term for a thin-faced man …1595
– HATCHET FACE a person having a long, narrow face with sharp features, and often with a severer or hostile expression …1855
– LENTEN-CHAPS † a term of contempt for a person with lean visage …1622
– MONKEYFACE a person with a monkey-like face …1936 Amer. sl.
– MOON-FACE a person with a very round face …Bk1988 Aust. sl. 
– MUD-FACE one whose facial features are always cloudy in expression; a person’s face …1966 Amer. dial.
– MUFFLE CHOPS a person with a swollen face or with a full lower face …1904 Amer. dial.
– NUTCRACKER FACE one with a thin, sharp face …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PALEFACE † a person whose face is pale as a result of fear, shock, cowardice, etc. …1797
– POKER FACE a person whose face is usually expressionless …1885 Amer. sl.
– SCONEFACE a nickname for a person or thing with a flat, round face …1933 Sc.
– SCRAPIT-FACE a person with a thin, haggard face …Bk1904 Sc.
– SNEAKBILL † a term of contempt; a mean, paltry, or sneaking fellow; a starved or thin-faced person …1562
– SPLATTER-FACE † a broad-faced man or woman …B1900
– TALLOW-FACE † a pale, yellowish-white face; hence a person having such a face; a term of contempt …1592 now rare or obs.
face – verbs
– CHANGE SOMEONE’S FACE to beat and disfigure someone’s face …1896 Amer. sl.
– DARKLE of the face, etc.: to become dark with anger, scorn, etc. …1800
– FAKE UP to paint one’s face …c1870 theatrical usage
– FALLOW † of the face, etc.: to blanch, to grow pale …c1205
– FARCE † to paint the face …c1400
– FARD † to paint the face with ‘fard’; to hide defects and improve the complexion …a1450
– MAKE MAWMS to make faces …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MANTLE of the face: to be suffused with glowing colour; to flush …1707
 
FACE CLOTH – nouns
– FACERAG a washcloth, face cloth …1965 Amer. dial.
– WASH RAG a washcloth …1934 Amer. dial.
 
FACE-DOWN – adverbs
– BELLY-FLAUGHT headlong; hastily; face-down; flat-forward …Bk1911 Sc.
 
FACETIOUS – adjectives
– FACETE facetious, witty, humorous, pleasant, cheerful, gay …1603 arch.
– LEPID * pleasant in speech or behaviour, jocose, facetious, amusing, witty …1619
 
FACETIOUSNESS – nouns
– FACETIOSITY * the quality of being facetious …1822
– LEPIDITY † facetiousness, wit, a jest, a joke …1647
 
FACE TO FACE – phrases
– NEB TO NEB † face to face …c1230
– NEB WITH NEB † face to face …c1175
– UNDER FOUR EYES face to face …1990 Trinidad and Tobago
– UNDER TWO EYES face to face …1990 Trinidad and Tobago
 
FACILITATE – verbs
– EASY † to make easy, to facilitate; to relieve, to assist …1567
– FACILITE †* to facilitate …1604
 
FACT(S) – adjectives
– DOWN TO CASES down to the hard facts …L19 US sl.
– FACTY full of facts …1883
– NEGOTIAL †* relating to facts without consideration of persons …c1530
– OPEN-FOUNDED † based on plain or obvious facts …1571
fact(s) – adverbs 
– EFFECTUALLY † in fact, in reality …c1600
fact(s) – nouns 
– BIT OF GOOD TRUTH the plain facts …Bk1890 sl.
– DINKUM OIL inside or accurate information or news; the true facts …1915 Aust. sl.
– EFFECT † practical reality, fact, as opposed to name or appearance …1606
– FACK fact, truth, reality …1836 Sc.
– FACTOID a presumed fact of dubious validity; a popular assumption or belief …1970s Amer. sl.
– FIXED FACT a positive fact …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
– GOOD GUTS correct information; the true facts; the news …1957 Aust. sl.
– GUTS the facts, the information …1910s sl., orig. Aust.
– LAYOUT a situation, the facts …L19 sl.
– LOWDOWN the real and unadorned facts; the true, secret, or inside information (usually preceded by ‘the’ ..colloq.
– SKINNY the latest information; inside information; rumour or fact …1959 US sl.
– STRENGTH the essential facts; the pertinent details …1908 Aust. sl.
– TIN-TACKS facts …20C rhyming sl.
– TRACK RECORD the known facts about relevant history …1951 US sl.
– VERABLES veritable facts …1887 Eng. dial.
– VERITY true facts or circumstances …1422
fact(s) – person
– FACT FINDER one engaged, as in a labour dispute, to ascertain the facts of a case …1945 
fact(s) – verbs
– COME DOWN TO BRASS NAILS to come to facts or realities …1911 orig. US 
– FACK to tell the truth; to utter facts …1940s US Black usage
– GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS to come to facts or realities …1903 orig. US
– LAY IT OUT STRAIGHT to tell all the facts …1930s sl.
– LET THE MILK DOWN to reveal the facts after withholding them for some time …1970s US sl.
fact(s) –  phrases 
– THAT’S A PARTICULAR that’s a fact …1943 Amer. dial.
 
FACTION – person
– FACTIONARY a member of a faction; a partisan …1555
– FACTIONEER a member of a faction; a party-man …c1710
– FACTIONER † one who makes or joins a faction; a partisan …1587
– FACTIONIST one who promotes or leads a faction; a member of a faction, a partisan …1609
faction – verbs
– FACTIONATE 1. † to join together in a faction; to band together …1611
2. † to form factions …1642
– FACTIONEER * to busy oneself in factions …1881
 
FACTIOUS – adjectives
– BRIGOUS † quarrelsome, contentious; pertaining to strife or disagreement, disputable, factious …1387
– DISSENTIOUS * given to strife, dissension, or disagreement; discordant, quarrelsome, contentious, factious …1560
– FACTIOSE †* given or inclinable to faction, seditious …1727
factious – verbs 
– FACTION † to act in a factious or rebellious spirit; to intrigue; to mutiny …1609
 
FACTORY – adjectives
– FACTORIAL * pert. to a factory; consisting in a factory …1864
factory – nouns 
– LINE an assembly line in a factory …1996 US
– MANUARY † a factory …1625
– MANUFACTORY a factory or workshop …1692
– MANUFACTURE † a manufacturing establishment or business; a factory …1653
– SHUTDOWN a stoppage of work; the temporary closing of a factory …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
factory – person 
– BENCH HAND a person who works at a workbench in a factory or workshop …1851
– GEARHEAD a car factory worker …1991 US sl.
– HALF-TIMER a child who works half the day at a factory …1888 Eng. dial.
– MANUFACTURER † an artificer, an operative in a factory or workshop …1719
– MOVE-MAN * a factory worker who is responsible for moving parts, etc., from one stage of production to another …1923
 
FACULTIES – adjectives
– FURNISHED † possessed of one’s faculties physical and mental …1473
 
FAD – adjectives
– FADDY full of fads …c1820 colloq.
fad – nouns 
– DIDDLE a whim, a fad; something trifling …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FANTAD a crotchety way of acting; a fad …1867
– FANTOD a crotchety way of acting; a fad …1867
– ITEM an intention, purpose; a crafty design; a trick; a fancy, a fad …1887 Eng. dial.
– KICK a fad, a temporary preference or interest …1946 US sl.
– LATEST HOT DROP, THE the latest fad or fashion; the latest craze of any kind …c1950 Aust. sl.
– MAGGOT a whim, a fancy, a fad …1719 Sc.
– MAXIM a plan, contrivance; an experiment; a fad; a crotchet …1882 Eng. dial.
– OMINY a fad or fanciful contrivance …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PADDY a hobby, a fad, a pastime …L19 sl.
– RAGE the current fad; an irresistible fad …Bk1990 Amer. sl.
fad – person
– FADDIST one who has a fad or whims – one who indulges in fads …1883
– FADMONGER one devoted to a public or private fad …c1880 colloq.
 
FADDISH, FADDY – adjectives
– A-GO-GO in the newest style; faddish, trendy …Amer. sl.
– FANCICAL fanciful, faddy, capricious, fickle …1671 rare exc. Eng. dial.
– FANCICLE fanciful, faddy, capricious, fickle …1895 Eng. dial.
– FANSICLE fanciful, faddy, capricious, fickle …1895 Eng. dial.
 
FADE – adjectives
– FADESOME apt to fade …1869 Eng. dial.
– FADY tending to fade; shading off by degrees into a paler hue …1730-6
– MARCESCIBLE † liable to wither or fade …1656
– MARCESSIBLE † liable to wither or fade …1656
fade – verbs 
– BEDABBER to fade by keeping in the hands …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BEJABBER to fade by keeping in the hands …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CAST COLOUR to lose colour, to become pale, to fade, esp. by the action of light …c1350
– DABBER to fade, to droop, to wither; to soil …1854 Eng. dial.
– DAPPER to fade, to droop, to wither; to soil …1854 Eng. dial.
– DAVER to fade; to wither; to droop; to soil …1621 Eng. dial.
– DEFADE † to lose freshness or fairness; to fade away; to grow worse in quality or character …c1325
– DUN † to become dark or dim; to become dull in colour to lose colour, to fade …a1400
– DWINE to waste or pine away; to decline in vigour; to languish, to fade, to wither …c1000 arch.
– FAINT * to lose colour or brightness; to fade, to die away …1430
– FALLOW † to become pale or yellow; hence, to fade, to wither …a1000
– FIZZLE OUT to come to a disappointing end; to fade out …a1848 colloq.
– QUAIL † to fade, wither, etc. …c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SCAD to soil by frequent use; to fade; used esp. of dress …Bk1904 Sc.
– TAINT † to lose vigour or courage; to become weak or faint; to wither, to fade …1605
– TO-DRESE † to fall apart; to decay, to fade …a900
– UNAPPAIR † to become impaired; to fade …1426
– VADE † of colour : to fade …1471
– WALLAN to wither, to fade …1868 Sc.
– WALLOW † to wither, to fade; to waste away …c888 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– WANZE † to wither, to fade, to waste away; to become emaciated …1567
– WELK † of a flower, plant, etc.: to lose freshness or greenness; to become flaccid or dry; to wilt, to wither, to fade …c1250 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– WELKEN † to wither; to fade …1398
 
FADED – adjectives
– BEDABBERED faded …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– DABRIFIED faded …1895 Eng. dial
– DAVERED withered, faded, drooping …1866 Eng. dial.
– EXOLETE † of flowers, etc.: faded or withered …1730
– FADE † faded, feeble, languishing, withered …1303
– FADEY dull, faded …1928 Amer. dial.
– FADGY faded, soiled …1895 Eng. dial.
– FADY dull, faded …1928 Amer. dial.
– FAUCHIE pale yellowish grey, of a faded colour …1911 Sc.
– FAUGH † pale, faint of colour; faded, yellowed …1824 Sc.
– FEACHY † pale yellowish grey, of a faded colour …1911 Sc.
– SCAW’D faded, discoloured; worthless …1785 Sc.
– SCAW’D-LIKE faded in colour …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– WALLAN withered, faded …1868 Sc.
– WALLOWED † withered, faded, discoloured …a1300
faded – nouns
– SCAW a faded or spoilt mark …Bk1904 Sc.
faded – verbs 
– SCAW to spoil or destroy the appearance of, esp. in respect of colour; to make shabby or faded …1772 Sc.
 
FAECES – see EXCREMENT
 
FAGGOT – nouns
– FADGE a bundle of sticks, a faggot …Bk1900 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– FAGGALD † a faggot, a bundle of twigs or heath tied with straw ropes …1838 Sc.
– FAGOGHE † a faggot …Bk1900 Eng. dial.