10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FANTEEG»
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A dictionary of the Kentish dialect and provincialisms in ...
Fanteeg [fanteeg-] sb. A state of worry ; excitement ; passion. " We couldn't help
laughing at the old lady, she put herself in such a fanteeg." Fantod [fan-tud] adj.
Fidgetty; restless; uneasy. Fardle [faa-dl] sb. A bundle ; a little pack. Amongst the
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William Douglas Parish, William Francis Shaw, 1888
A portion of growing underwood, ready to fell or cut. FANTEEG [fanteeg'] sb. A
state of worry; excitement; passion. “We couldn't help laughing at the old lady,
she put herself in such a fanteeg.” FANTOD [fan'tud] adj. Fidgetty; restless;
uneasy.
English Dialect Society, 1887
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A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant Embracing English, ...
Fanny Blair (rhyming slang), hair. the Fanqui (Anglo-Chinese), a European ;
literally foreign devil. Fanteeg (popular), to be " in a regular fanteeg," to be
perplexed, embarrassed, to be at one's wits' end (provincial English). Far back (
tailors), an ...
Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, 1897
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
N hp. War. War. Shr. Hrf. Glo. Ken. Wil. Dor. Cor. Also written fanteag Chs.1 Shr.";
fanteague Not.' Lei.' War.“ w.Wor.' Glo.' Wil.'; fanteeg Ken.'; and in forms
fantagWiL'; fantaig Shr.' Wil.'; vanteag Dor. [fan-, faanti'g, -tEg.] 1. A state of
excitement, ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
Fanagalo 583 fanteeg Fanagalo /,//i .M;.»-/». n a South African pidgin language, a
mixture of Zulu, Afrikaans and English. fanal/fl 'ml, (archaic) n a lighthouse or
beacon. [Fr, from Or phonos a lantern, and phainein to show] Fanariot.
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
E.fainl.] FAN-TECKLES, FANTICLES, see Fern-tickles. FANTIGUE. sb. lrel. Chs.
Not. Lei. th. War. \Vor. Shr. Hrf. Glo. Ken. Wil. Dor. Cor. Also written fanteag Chs.l
Shr.“; fanteague Not.l Lei.l \Var.'za w.\,'\/or.l Glo.I \Vi].'; fanteeg Ken}; and ...
Give some account of the word "fanteeg," and hazard any conjecture explanatory
of the expression "My Prooshan Blue," applied by Mr. Samuel to Mr. Tony Weller.
27. In developing to P. M. his views of a proposition, what assumption did Mr.
Charles Stuart Calverley, 1895
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, with Notes and ...
Give some account of the word “ fanteeg,” and hazard any conjecture explanatory
of the expression, “ My Prooshan Blue,” applied by Mr. Samuel to Mr. Tony Weller
. 27. In developing to P. M. his views of a proposition, what assumption did Mr.
They were to come "sure by Christmas Eve," and O'Flynn was in what he called "
a froightful fanteeg" as the short day of the 24th wore towards night, and never a
sign of the one-eyed Pymeut. Half a dozen times O'Flynn had gone beyond the ...
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Notes on English Etymology: Chiefly Reprinted from the ...
Fanteague, a worry, or bustle, also, ill-humour; Halliwell. To be ' in a fanteague '
or ' in a fanteeg,' i.e. to be in a state of excitement, is a familiar expression. The pl.
fanteegs is in Pickwick, chapter xxxviii, with the sense of ' worries,' or ' troubles.
Walter William Skeat, 1904
