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
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
Green liveries, bedad!" the General said, "and as foin a pair of high-stepping bee horses as ever a gentleman need sit behoind, let alone a docthor.
From The History of Pendennis by Thackeray, William Makepeace
And here is a foin behind for a mad dog!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
“It’s a foin piece of work, I’m told,” said he.
From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
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