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

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

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 Thackeray, William Makepeace

To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse; to see thee here, to see thee there; to see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy II.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

"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 Buckley, Robert John

But on the other side, above Athenry, 'tis there ye'll see the foin shootin'.

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