foin
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of foin
1325–75; Middle English (v.), apparently < Old French foine fish spear < Latin fuscina
Example Sentences
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“Es there a chance, friend Schiem, that Oi moit buy a foin wee peg from yeh? Moi coosin and Oi messed our danner today.....”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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“Schiem’ll do foin fur loovlie young folk loik yusselfs.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Hez, Sir Asnes, car chantez, Belle bouche rechignez, Vous aurez du foin assez Et de l'avoine a plantez.”
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.
They have just executed "The foin ould Irish gintleman," And are at this present writing shouting "Vive l' America, home of the free."
From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by Beatty, John
They cut, thrust, and foin as fiercely as fifty Francalanzas, and are continually shouting on Saint George.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
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