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167 Filth. "A filth," i.e., a dirty slut. Also, a bellyfull. ^Tve had my filth." Fingers. The depth of a hole for blasting rock is measured by a miner placing his fingers against the borer in the hole. "There's three more fingers to bore." Fire-tail. The red-start. M.A.c. Firk. V. To tease roughly by hand. F.c. Fish-fag. Female fish-dealer. A fish-wife. Fish-jousting. Hawking fish. Fitchered. Baulked. '^Used by miners when some difficulty occurs in boring a hole for blasting." Garland. Fitch, Fitcher, or Fichet. A polecat. Fitty, or Vitty. Suitable, proper, well adapted. Fish-jowster, Fish-jowder, or Fish-chowter. Names for an itinerant fish dealer. One who carries a cowal of fish on the back is also called a back- jouster. Five-stones. A boy's game with five small stones, placed on the palm of the hand and then tossed up together a few inches high so as to be caught by a quick turn on the back of the same hand. He who thus catches the greatest number, after a series of such turns, wins the game. Flair. Pig's kidney fat. M.A.C. Flair in Celtic Cornish means a smell, a stink.