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faikins

faikins noun: faith (used in imprecations).

Noun

faikins (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland, UK, dialectal, obsolete) Faith (used in imprecations).
    • As she was eating, Mary kept looking in her face, and at last said, "Ah then, mother, doesn't the misthress luk mighty well? Upon my faikins, ma'am, I never seen you luking half so handsome."1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 380

Origin of faikins

From fay (“faith”) + -kins (“diminutive suffix”).

Questions about faikins

What does faikins mean?
Faikins means faith (used in imprecations).
What part of speech is faikins?
Faikins is a noun.

Words near faikins in the dictionary

  1. faifeau
  2. faifeaus
  3. Faifi
  4. Faifo
  5. Faihriem
  6. faikins
  7. fail
  8. fail and divot
  9. fail at life
  10. fail closed
  11. fail dyke

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