Meaning of fainaigue | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.
   British, dialectal, transitive
2. To cheat or deceive (someone).
   British, dialectal, transitive
3. To evade work or shirk responsibility.
   British, dialectal, intransitive
4. To fail to keep a promise; to renege.
   British, dialectal, intransitive
5. To renege (“break one's commitment to follow suit when capable”).
   British, dialectal, intransitive

Examples

“[Edmund] Richardson's contract lapsed in 1871, but five years later the almost incredible Jones Hamilton, who played with plantations, race⟳ tracks, railroads, and steamboats as a reckless boy plays with marbles, fainaigued a similar agreement.”

“The Swabian abbots were in this way fainaigued into choosing [Adam] Adami, but this arrangement still left him without the so-called Virilstimme or final vote⟳.”

“After much waving of arms I discover⟳ that—although meals of a sort⟳ are furnished—you are expected to provide⟳ your own⟳ dishes, if, indeed, you anticipate this refinement in eating. I finally fainaigue a tin plate out of the mess department, for which I am required to give⟳ two lire.”

“He agreed with the boy for a month at £4 a-year, and he went away and feneaged that boy, and never took him nor paid him.”

“[H]e was doing a stitch of time in Ohio for embezzlement and for fainaiguing a good-hearted Jack under the alias Joseph […]”

“When Mr. Simpson had spoken of the "Jack of Oaks" (meaning the Knave of Clubs), or had said "fainaiguing" (where others said "revoking"), we had pretended not to notice⟳ it, until at length we actually did not.”

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