Fagin

American  

[fey-gin] / ˈfeɪ gɪn /

noun

1. (in Dickens'Oliver Twist ) a villainous old man who trains and uses young boys as thieves.

2. Also fagin. a person who teaches crime to others.

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Fagin Cultural  

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

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Example Sentences

Four years later, he took the role of Fagin when the show was revived on the London stage.

From BBC

Having stolen everything else in sight, the well-known Anglo-Saxon villain, Fagin, and his pint-sized sidekick, the Artful Dodger, also steal the picture.

From Los Angeles Times

The show's upcoming Christmas special, which sees Dodger crash a festive party at 10 Downing Street, also gives a bit of backstory to Fagin.

From BBC

The parchment was part of a prayer book and priests’ liturgy, said Lisa Fagin Davis, executive director of the Medieval Academy of America and a professor of manuscript studies at Simmons University in Boston.

From Seattle Times

He becomes Fagin, “a receiver of stolen goods,” as Dickens describes him in the novel’s preface.

From New York Times