foin

American  

[foin] / fɔɪn /

noun

1. a thrust with a weapon.

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verb (used without object)

1. to thrust with a weapon; lunge.

foin British  

/ fɔɪn /

noun

1. a thrust or lunge with a weapon

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verb

1. to thrust with a weapon

Etymology

Origin of foin

1325–75; Middle English (v.), apparently < Old French foine fish spear < Latin fuscina

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Example Sentences

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foin

“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

Misther Blake was dhrivin' to church, at about eleven o'clock o' a foin summer's mornin'.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley

All are gone, an' their foin, splindid houses tumblin' down, an' the people worse off than iver.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley

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, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray

"Aye, but she is, though, an' a foin lump iv a son ye have, haven't ye, Maureen."

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley

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