English Dictionary

fainaigue

/fəˈneɪɡ/

verb

To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle. / To cheat or deceive (someone). / To evade work or shirk responsibility.

She fainaiged her way into the party.

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

To evade work or shirk responsibility.

意味（4）

To fail to keep a promise; to renege.

意味（5）

(card games) 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.]