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fruit, n. fruitage, fruitery. a.s.sociated Words: pomology, Pomona, pomologist, carpology, carpologist, carpophagous, drupe, carpomania, raceme, fructiferous, fructify, fructification, bletting, pulp, rind, orchard, nursery, pepinnery, fruitchafer, pomiculture, sarcocarp.
fruit-eating, a. frugivorous, fructivorous, carpophagous.
fruiterer, n. fruit-dealer, costermonger, coster.
fruitful, a. prolific, productive, fertile, frugiferous, fecund, bountiful.
fruitless, a. unfruitful, infertile, infecund, acarpous, barren; unavailing, useless, vain.
fruit-seller, n. fruiterer, coster, costermonger (peddler).
fruit sugar. levulose.
frump, n. (Colloq.) gossip.
frustrate, v. baffle, defeat, disappoint, foil, balk, thwart, circ.u.mvent, nullify.
frustration, n. defeat, disappointment, balking, foiling, nullification.
frying-pan, n. spider, skillet.
fuddled, a. muddled, tipsy, drunk, intoxicated, boozy, groggy.
fudge, n. See balderdash.
fuel, n. combustibles.
fugitive, a. fleeing; evanescent, short-lived, fugacious, volatile, ephemeral, impermanent, transient.
fugitive, n. runaway, runagate, renegade, deserter.
fulfill, v. accomplish, complete, consummate, realize, satisfy, fill, answer, meet; discharge, perform.
fulfillment, n. consummation, accomplishment, fruition, realization; discharge, performance.
full, a. filled up, replete; copious, ample, plethoric, plenteous, bountiful, abundant, liberal; complete, plenary; sated, surfeited, cloyed, glutted, gorged, saturated; engrossed with.
full swing. _carte blanche_, liberty, unrestraint.
fulsome, a. offensive, nauseous, disgusting, excessive, gross, immoderate.
fume, n. exhalation, reek, smoke, steam, vapor.
fume, v. smoke, reek; storm, rage, bl.u.s.ter.
fun, n. merriment, mirth, gayety, frolic, jest, pleasantry, drollery, waggery, waggishness, facetiousness, divertis.e.m.e.nt amus.e.m.e.nt, relaxation, jocularity.
function, n. duty, province, office, business, part; discharge, performance, execution; party, entertainment, festivity, reception.
fundament, n. b.u.t.tocks.
fundamental, a. basal, elementary, original, essential, radical.
fundamentally, adv. primarily, essentially, radically.
funeral, n. obsequies.
funeral director. undertaker.
funeral oration. eloge.
funeral pile. pyre.
funeral song. dirge, elegy, requiem.
funereal, a. exequial, mournful, solemn, sad.
Fungi, n. pl. Thallophytes (toadstools_, _mushrooms_, _etc.).
a.s.sociated Words: sp.a.w.n, spore, mycophagy, fungivorous, mycetophagous, amanitine, mycelium, fungic, fungicide, fungoid, fungiform, fungous, mycologist.
fungology, n. mycology.
fungus, n. thallogen, thallophyte; granulation, proud flesh.
funk, v. stink; (Colloq.) flinch, recoil, shrink back.
funk, n. (Colloq.) recoiling, flinching; s.h.i.+rk, coward.
funnel, n. tunnel.
funnel-shaped, a. infundibular, infundibulate, infundibuliform.
funny, a. comic, comical, amusing, droll, laughable, farcical, witty, jocular, jocose, ludicrous, burlesque, facetious, risible, absurd, waggish, humorous, jesting.
fur, n. peltry, pelage. a.s.sociated Words: furrier, furriery, tippet, pelisse.
furbelow, n. flounce, frill, ruffle.
furbish, v.polish, burnish, scour, clean.
Furies, n. pl. Erinyes, Eumenides (Tisiphone, Alecto Megaera).
furious, a. infuriated, angry, raging, violent, frenzied, turbulent, fierce.
furnish, v. supply, provide, contribute, bestow, purvey, cater.
furniture, n. goods, movables. a.s.sociated Words: cabinet-maker, cabinet-making, upholstering, shook.
