fainaigue

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “[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.”

2. fiil To cheat or deceive (someone).

   “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.”

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

   “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.”