eConsultant - Meaning of Liff

FAIRYMOUNT (vb.n.) : Polite word for buggery.
FARDUCKMANTON (n. archaic) : An ancient edict, mysteriously omitted from the Doomsday Book, requiring that the feeding of fowl on village ponds should be carried out equitably.
FARNHAM (n.) : The feeling you get about four o'clock in the afternoon when you haven't got enough done.
FARRANCASSIDY (n.) : A long and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to undo someone's bra.
FEAKLE (vb.) : To make facial expressions similar to those that old gentlemen make to young girls in the playground.
FINUGE (vb.) : In any division of foodstuffs equally between several people, to give yourself the extra slice left over.
FIUNARY (n.) : The safe place you put something and then forget where it was.
FLIMBY (n.) : One of those irritating handle-less slippery translucent plastic bags you get in supermarkets which, no matter how you hold them, always contrive to let something fall out.
FLODIGARRY (n. Scots) : An ankle-length gabardine or oilskin tarpaulin worn by deep-sea herring fishermen in Arbroath and publicans in Glasgow.
FOINDLE (vb.) : To queue-jump very discreetly by working one's way up the line without being spotted doing so.
FORSINAIN (n. archaic) : The right of the lord of the manor to molest dwarves on their birthdays.
FOVANT (n.) : A taxi driver's gesture, a raised hand pointed out of the window which purports to mean 'thank you' and actually means 'fuck off out of the way'.
FRADDAM (n.) : The small awkward-shaped piece of cheese which remains after grating a large regular-shaped piece of cheese and enables you to cut your fingers.
FRAMLINGHAM (n.) : A kind of burglar alarm usage. It is cunningly designed so that it can ring at full volume in the street without apparently disturbing anyone. Other types of framlingams are burglar alarms fitted to business premises in residential areas, which go off as a matter of regular routine at 5.31 p.m. on a Friday evening and do not get turned off til 9.20 a.m. on Monday morning.
FRANT (n.) : Measure. The legal minimum distance between two trains on the District and Circle line of the London Underground. A frant, which must be not less than 122 chains (or 8 leagues) long, is not connected in any way with the adjective 'frantic' which comes to us by a completely different route (as indeed do the trains).
FRATING GREEN (adj.) : The shade of green which is supposed to make you feel comfortable in hospitals, industrious in schools and uneasy in police stations.
FRIMLEY (n.) : Exaggerated carefree saunter adopted by Norman Wisdom as an immediate prelude to dropping down an open manhole.
FRING (n.) : The noise made by light bulb which has just shone its last.
FROLESWORTH (n.) : Measure. The minimum time it is necessary to spend frowning in deep concentration at each picture in an art gallery in order that everyone else doesn't think you've a complete moron.
FROSSES (pl.n.) : The lecherous looks exchanged between sixteen-year-olds at a party given by someone's parents.
FULKING (participial vb.) : Pretending not to be in when the carol-singers come round.