f-words from plantagenet-era england

i celebrated the pagan holiday of thanksgiving at home in ganan manor this year. high on amontillado sherry and potentially hallucinogenic mold spores from grandma ganan’s ancient pumpernickel loaf, i set about the ganan archives to find a suitable dictionary from which to trawl for words that begin with the sixth letter of the alphabet.

on a top shelf and accessible only by ladder, i happened upon the dictionary of the first or oldest words in the english language which claims to inventory every word (even typos) found in the printed english literature of the 13th century. 

while an uncle from one branch of the family was getting handsy with an aunt from another, while my brother’s dog defiled the oriental carpet in the ganan drawing room, while my father read from a book of frost poems to an audience of trytophanned zombies, yours truly was scanning an old dictionary (as per yooʒ) so as to highlight a few forgotten f-words from foretime. here they is:

fadme · to embrace
falewe · to become yellow
felawrede · fellowship
ferinkli · suddenly
feye · near to die
firren · made of fur
fleshhede · the incarnation
flumbardyng · a hot-tempered man
fnaste · to breathe
folewen · to baptize
footfastness · captivity
forcrempe · to be convulsed, furious
fordwine · to dwindle away
forswat · covered with sweat