Fagin

[ fey-gin ]

noun

1. (in Dickens' Oliver Twist ) a villainous old man who trains and uses young boys as thieves.
2. Also fagin. a person who teaches crime to others.

Fagin

1. A villain in the novel , by Charles Dickens . The unscrupulous, miserly Fagin teaches Oliver Twist and other orphaned boys to pick pockets and steal for him.

Example Sentences

He looks like Fagin from Oliver Twist—wiry, with long, graying hair and a perfectly pointy beard.

From The Daily Beast

It must come some time or another; and why not in the winter time when you dont want to go out a-walking so much; eh, Fagin?

From Project Gutenberg

Fagin nodded in the affirmative, and pointing in the direction of Saffron Hill, inquired whether any one was up yonder to-night.

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She was in her room, the woman said; so Fagin crept softly up stairs, and entered it without any previous ceremony.

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It would easily have made him beautiful if he had been merely squalid; if he had been a Jew of the Fagin type.

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Never told the old parson where they were; never peached upon old Fagin.

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