Reverse Dictionary: FOS – FQ

FOSSIL – nouns
– BIBBLE a pebble, a stone, a fossil …1895 Eng. dial.
 
FOSTER – person
– DALT a foster-child …1775 Sc. & Ireland
– DAULT † a foster-child …1775 Sc.
– POBIE a father or foster-father …1822 Sc.
foster – verbs 
– AUMPER † to foster …1883 Eng. dial.
 
FOUL – adjectives
– DICHTY dirty, foul …1887 Sc.
– DUNGY * despicable, contemptible, foul; base, worthless; vile, degrading …c1494
– FECULENT of the nature of faeces or dregs; abounding with sediment or impurities; laden or polluted with filth; foul, fetid …1471
– ILL-SCRAPED not scraped clean, foul …1858 Sc.
– LAIDLY ugly, loathsome, foul; clumsy …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– LEPROUS foul, filthy …1598
– LIDLY ugly, loathsome, foul; clumsy …1790 Sc.
– IMMUND * unclean, impure; filthy, foul …1621
– NESTIE ‘nasty’, foul, filthy, offensive …c1700 Sc. 
– RANK corrupt, foul; festering …1579
– REASTY rusty; discoloured; foul …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SPURCITIOUS †* filthy, foul, obscene …1628
– TURPITUDINOUS characterized by turpitude or depravity; shameful, foul, wicked …1814 
​- UNCLEAN † of air or smells: foul or impure …c1400
foul – nouns
– BAGGAGE corrupt or foul matter …B1700 Sc.
– DUNGHILL a collection of worthless, foul, or contemptible things …1340
– FEDITIES † foul or disgusting practices …1539
foul – person 
– SLUBBERDEGULLION a dirty, mean fellow; a worthless, slovenly fellow; a base, foul, nasty wretch …a1616
foul – verbs  (also see BEFOUL)
– BESMOTTER to smear or daub with mud or dirt; bespatter, to foul …1715 Eng. dial.
– NAAR to stink, to smell foul …1980s S. Afr. sl.
– SCUMBER † to void ordure; also, to produce something foul; to foul with dirty liquid; to daub with soft dirt …1596 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
FOUL-MOUTHED – adjectives
– BLACK-MOUTHED † using foul or scurrilous language; abusive, foul-mouthed; slanderous, calumnious …1595
– HAWK-A-MOUTHED foul-mouthed, scolding …1866 Eng. dial.
– ILL-GABBED foul-mouthed; having a habit of using insolent, abusive language …1895 Sc.
– ILL-JAWT foul-tongued …Bk1905 Sc.
– ILL-MOUTHED foul-mouthed …Bk1905 Sc.
– ILL-SPOKEN foul-mouthed …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILL-TONGUED having a malicious tongue; speaking evil; slanderous; using bad language; foul-mouthed …a1300
– OPEN-MOUTHED coarse in speech, foul-mouthed …1892 Eng. dial.
– THERSITICAL * foul-mouthed, scurrilous, grossly abusive …1650
– UGLY-MOUTHED foul-mouthed, given to bad language …1889 Eng. dial.
foul-mouthed – person 
– BILLINGSGATE † a clamouring, foul-mouthed person; a vulgar abuser; a scolding impudent slut …1683
– BLACKGUARD a foul-mouthed person; a slanderer …1750
– BLACK-MOUTH * a foul-mouthed person; a slanderer …1642
– BLAGGERD a blackguard; one addicted to swearing and low language …Bk1884
– DIRTIN-GAB a foul-mouthed person …1856 Sc.
– GARBAGE MOUTH a person who regularly uses obscene language; a foul-mouthed person …1970 US sl.
– GUTTERMOUTH a foul-mouthed person …1965 colloq., chiefly US
– HAWCH-A-MOUTH a foul-mouthed, blustering person; one who talks incessantly in a coarse, vulgar manner using obscene and offensive language …1746 Eng. dial.
– HAWCH-MOUTH a foul-mouthed, blustering person; one who talks incessantly in a coarse, vulgar manner using obscene and offensive language …1746 Eng. dial.
– MUCK-SPOUT a foul-mouthed talker …c1870 Brit. sl.
– POTTY MOUTH someone who uses obscene or profane language in most social settings; a foul-mouthed person …1969 colloq., orig. US
– RUDAS a coarse, unmannerly, foul-mouthed old woman; an ill-natured, ugly old woman; a virago …1725 Sc.
– SALTY DOG one who uses an excess of obscene language …1983 US Black sl.
– SCALD one given to the use of abusive language; one who by the use of such language causes public disturbance; a foul-mouthed quarreller; applied to both men and women, but in the 17th century perhaps increasingly to women …a1500 Sc. 
– WASH-MOUTH one who blurts out anything he has heard; a babbler; a foul-mouthed person …1746 Eng. dial.
 
FOULNESS – nouns
– FECULENCE 1. foulness, filth …1860
2. moral foulness …1860
– FECULENCY † foulness, filth …1651
– FEDITY † foulness, filthiness, nastiness, vileness, loathsomeness, whether moral or physical …1542
– LEPROSY foulness, filth …1598
– LEPRY † foulness, filth …1526
– NAST dirt, filth, foulness …1789 Eng. dial.
 
FOUL-UP – nouns
– DEVIL TO PAY AND NO PITCH HOT a predicament, a critical situation, or a perplexing foul-up …1963 Amer. dial.
– HELL TO PAY AND NO PITCH HOT a predicament, a critical situation, or a perplexing foul-up …1927 Amer. dial.
 
FOUND – adjectives
– LATED searched for; found …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– YFOUND † found …c900
found – verbs 
– SALT to plant or place something to be found …1981 US sl.
 
FOUNDATION – nouns
– BASING †* foundation, base …c1325
– BASIS the bottom of anything, considered as the part on which it rests or is supported; the foundation, base, foot …1571 arch.
– SUBSTRUCTION a basis, foundation …1765
– WALL-ROOTS a foundation …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
FOUNDER – person
– BEGINNER one who begins; an originator, a founder …c1400
founder – verbs 
– TORFLE to founder, to go lame; to decline in health, to pine away, to languish; to lose interest in or draw back from an undertaking …1575-6 Eng. dial.
 
FOUNDER (metal) – person
– YETER, YETTER † a caster of metal; a founder …c893
 
FOUNTAIN – nouns
– BUBBLER a drinking fountain, esp. one outdoors …1914 Amer. dial.
– QUELL * a spring, fountain …1894
fountain – verbs 
– QUILL to bubble up as a fountain or spring …1854 Eng. dial.
 
FOUR – adjectives
– QUARTER four …1996 UK sl.
– QUATER four …1996 UK sl.
– QUATERER four …1996 UK sl.
– QUATERNAL * consisting of four things or parts …1616
– QUATERNARIAN * consisting of four things or parts …
– QUATERNARY consisting of four things or parts …1605 
– QUATERNATE arranged in, or forming, a set of four; composed of four parts …1753 
– QUATERNION consisting of four persons, things, or parts …1814 
– ROAF four …Bk1903 back-slang
four – nouns
– ALDERSHOT WHORE four …Brit. rhyming sl.
– MESS † a company of four …1656 Eng. dial.
– QUADRATE † a group of four things …1637
– QUARTUMVIRATE * a body of four men …1819
– QUATERNARY a set of four things; the number four …c1430 
– QUATERNIO * a group or set of four persons or things …1678
– QUATERNION a group or set of four persons or things …1382 
– QUATERNITY 1. a set of four persons or four things …1529 
2. the fact or condition of being four in number, or an aggregate of four …1839 
– QUATRAIN a set of four persons …1862 nonce use 
– QUATRE the number four; the four in dice …a1550 
– QUATRUMVIRATE † a body of four men …1684
– QUATUORVIRATE * a body of four men …1856
 
FOURTEEN – nouns
– POLISH DOZEN 14 …1995 Amer. dial.
 
FOURTH – adjectives
– QUARTARY * fourth …1839
– QUARTERTH † fourth …1658
fourth – nouns 
– FARDEL † a fourth part of anything …c1440
– FARTHINGDEAL † a fourth part …a1400-50
 
FOWL – adjectives (also see CHICKEN, etc.)
– GALLINIVOROUS feeding on fowls or poultry …1862 nonce word
fowl – nouns 
– AIR CORPS CHICKEN a fowl that is all wings …Bk1944 service sl.
– BEAKER a fowl …Bk1891 sl.
– BIDDY † a chicken; a fowl …a1616 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– CACKLEBIRD a hen …1960s US sl.
– CACKLER a fowl …1673 sl.
– CACKLER’S-KEN a hen-roost; a fowl-house …1788 sl.
– CACKLING-CHEAT a fowl …1567 sl.
– CACKLING-CHETE a fowl …1567 sl.
– CHICKABIDDY a fowl …Bk1891 sl.
– CHOOK a chicken or other domestic fowl …1855 Aust. & NZ sl.
– CHOOKIE a chicken or other domestic fowl …1855 Aust. & NZ sl.
– CHOOKY a chicken or other domestic fowl …1855 Aust. & NZ sl.
– CHUCK-CHUCK a fowl …Bk1891 sl.
– CHUCKIE a chicken or other domestic fowl …1855 Aust. & NZ sl.
– CHUCKY a chicken or other domestic fowl …1855 Aust. & NZ sl.
– DANDY a bantam fowl …1828 Eng. dial.
– DANDY-COCK a bantam-cock …1859 Eng. dial.
– DANDY-HEN a bantam-hen …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DARROL the smallest of the brood of pigs, fowl, etc. …Irish sl.
– FAIZART a hermaphrodite fowl …1825 Sc.
– FIFTH QUARTER the giblets of a fowl …1908 Amer. dial.
– GALENEY a fowl …1812 sl.
– GALENY a fowl …1812 sl.
– LADY AND GENTLEMAN RACKET the theft of barnyard fowls …M19 sl.
– LAST PART THROUGH THE FENCE the rump of a cooked chicken or fowl …1954 Amer. dial.
– MARGERY PRATER † a fowl, a hen …1567 cant
– PARTLET a fowl …Bk1891 sl.
– PART THAT WENT OVER THE FENCE LAST the rump of a cooked chicken or fowl …1871 Amer. dial.
– POPE’S NOSE the fatty extremity of a fowl’s rump …1796
– QUERN the stomach of a fowl, the gizzard …1825 Sc.
– SICKLE a tail-feather of a cock …c1710
– VENT of a fowl: the anus …Bk1905 Sc.
fowl – person
– GALLICIDE a killer of fowls …1897 nonce word
– HEN-HUSSY, HEN-HUZZY a woman who looks after fowls …1899 Amer. dial. arch.
– WALKING POULTERER a rural thief who steals fowls, then hawks them from door to door …L18 sl.
fowl – verbs
– CUCURIATE † to crow like a cock …1623
fowl – interjections 
– TEWKIE! a call to fowls …1871 Sc. & Ireland
 
FOX – adjectives
– VULPECULATED † robbed by a fox …1671
fox – nouns 
– BALL the footprint of a fox …1845 Eng. dial.
– BEAU REYNOLDS a name for the fox …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BOURIE a rabbit’s burrow; a fox’s den …Bk1911 Sc.
– BUSH † the bushy tail of a fox; the bushy tail of any animal …1575
– CHARLES JAMES a fox …L19 rhyming sl. (Charles James Fox)
– CHARLEY a fox …c1850 colloq.
– CHARLIE a fox …c1850 colloq.
– CLICKET supposed by some to be a she-fox …a1500
– DOG FOX a male fox …1902 Amer. dial.
– FOX-CASE † the skin of a fox …1610
– FOX-STONES † the testicles of a fox …1597
– FOX-WHELP † a cub of the fox …c1320
– GANNING † the sound of a fox …1607
– GRAYBACK a gray fox …1982 Amer. dial.
– GRINNIE a red fox …1967 Amer. dial.
– KENNEL a the hole or lair of the fox …1735
– LAD a fox …20C Irish sl.
– LAURENCE † the fox …c1470
– LAURIE TOD a familiar name for the fox …c1470
– MASK in hunting: a fox’s head …1828
– PAD the foot of an animal, esp. a fox’s foot …1790 Eng. dial.
– PAD-MARK a footprint, the mark of a fox …1900 Eng. dial.
– PAD-SCENT in foxhunting: the scent from a fox’s foot …1898 Eng. dial.
– PUG a fox, chiefly as a nickname …E19 colloq.
– PUGGY a quasi-proper name for a fox …1827
– RANALD a fox …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RENYARD ‘reynard’, a fox …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– REYNOLDS a fox …1896 Eng. dial.
– SAMPSON FOX a red fox with woolly or otherwise abnormal fur …1903 Amer. dial.
– SAMSON FOX a red fox with woolly or otherwise abnormal fur …1903 Amer. dial.
– SCUMBER † the dung of a dog or fox; hence, filth, dirt …1647 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TOD 1. † a fox …c1170 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
2. † fox-skin …1503
– TOD-LOWRIE a familiar name for the fox …c1470
– VERGEN a burrow of a fox, rabbit, etc. …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WAGING †* the excrement of a fox …c1410
fox – verbs
– BALL to track the footprints of a fox …1878 Eng. dial.
– CLICKET of the fox or hare: to be in heat, to copulate …1575
– GANNE † to bark as a fox …1607
– KENNEL of a fox or other wild beast: to retreat into a lair …1552
– RUN TO EARTH 1. of a hunted fox: to go to ground
2. to hunt (an animal, esp. a fox) to the earth, and trap it there
– SCUMBER † of a dog or fox: to evacuate the faeces, to defecate; also said of a person …c1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– UNCOVER † to drive a fox out of cover …1824 Sc.
– VULPINATE † to play the fox; to deceive with crafty wiles or deceits …1623
 
FOXGLOVE – nouns
– BLOODY-BELLS the foxglove …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLOODY-FINGERS the foxglove …Bk1911 Sc.
– DEAD MEN’S BELLS the foxglove …1848 Sc.
– FAIRY-BELL the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea …1870 Ireland
– FAIRY-CAP a foxglove …1900 Amer. dial.
– FAIRY-FINGERS the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea …Bk1900 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– FAIRY-GLOVE the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea …1870 Eng. dial.
– FAIRY PETTICOATS the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea …1880 Eng. dial.
– FAIRY-THIMBLES a foxglove …1900 Amer. dial.
– FAIRY-WEED the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea …1870 Eng. dial.
– FOX-FINGER(S) the foxglove …1657
– HAIR-BELL the foxglove …1870 Eng. dial.
– LADIES’ THIMBLE the foxglove …1827
– LADY’S FINGERS the foxglove …1855 Eng. dial.
– LADY’S GLOVE the foxglove …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LADY’S THIMBLE the foxglove …1888
– RABBIT’S FLOWER the foxglove …Bk19C Eng. dial.
– REPPER the common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– THIMBLE the foxglove …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– THORS-MANTLE the foxglove …1864 Eng. dial.
– TIGER-MOUTH the snapdragon; the foxglove …1886
– TIGER’S MOUTH the foxglove …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
FOX HUNTING – person
– EARTH-STOPPER a man engaged to stop up the earths or holes of foxes to prevent them from taking refuge in them when hunted …1880
– HARD MAN a man who is particularly tough, aggressive, and self-assured; in fox-hunting: a hard-riding huntsman who is dismissive of physical danger …1835 colloq., chiefly Brit.