midsummer men
noun
(Originally) a pair of orpine plants, symbolizing a young man and his sweetheart, which were set upright by girls on midsummer eve to prognosticate the course of their love; (in later use, also occasionally in singular as midsummer man) the plant orpine (Hylotelephium telephium) itself; the related plant roseroot, Sedum rosea.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in John Aubrey (1626–1697), antiquary and biographer.
- formulation
- formulator
- formwork
- formyl
- for my money
- for my (or his, her, etc.) part
- Fornax
- fornenst
- fornent
- fornicate
- fornication
- fornicator
- fornix
- fornix cerebri
- for nothing
- for now
- for old times' sake
- for once (or this once)
- for one
- for one's liking
- for one's pains
- for one's sins
- for one thing
- for openers
- for (or fo') shizzle