fainaiguing

Verb

fainaigue (third-person singular simple present fainaigues, present participle fainaiguing, simple past and past participle fainaigued)

1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.
   • [Edmund] Richardson's contract lapsed in 1871, but five years later the almost incredible Jones Hamilton, who played with plantations, race tracks, railroads, and steamboats as a reckless boy plays with marbles, fainaigued a similar agreement.1958, [Jay] Saunders Redding, “Mississippi Delta”, in Lewis Gannett, editor, The Lonesome Road: The Story of the Negro’s Part in America (Mainstream of America Series), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday &...
2. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To cheat or deceive (someone).
   • He agreed with the boy for a month at £4 a-year, and he went away and feneaged that boy, and never took him nor paid him.1880, M[argaret] A[nn] Courtney, “Feneaged”, in M. A. Courtney, Thomas Q[uiller] Couch, Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall, London: […] [F]or the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […]...
3. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To evade work or shirk responsibility.
4. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To fail to keep a promise; to renege.
5. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To renege (“break one's commitment to follow suit when capable”).
   • When Mr. Simpson had spoken of the "Jack of Oaks" (meaning the Knave of Clubs), or had said "fainaiguing" (where others said "revoking"), we had pretended not to notice it, until at length we actually did not.[1888, Q. [pseudonym; Arthur Quiller-Couch], “Of Deterioration; and a Wheelbarrow that Contained Unexpected Things”, in The Astonishing History of Troy Town, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […]...