Fainaigue

Quick meaning: Fainaigue is a verb meaning To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.

Meaning

To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.

More Meanings

1. To cheat or deceive (someone).
2. To evade work or shirk responsibility.
3. To fail to keep a promise; to renege.
4. To renege (“break one's commitment to follow suit when capable”).

Example Sentences

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 […]

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.

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.

Word Forms

• fainaigues
• fainaiguing
• fainaigued

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fain, faine, foin, fathom, flake, fayle.

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