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fanteague

fanteague is the alternative form of fantigue.

Meaning of fantigue

Noun

fantigue (plural fantigues)

  1. (dialectal) A state of worry or excitement.
    • "What, ma'am!" placing her brawny arms akembo, "to fall into these fantigues and fantasies, and swound away, as a body may say, and all about a traitorish scape-grace the like of he![…]"1825, Ephraim Hardcastle (William Henry Pyne), The Twenty-Ninth of May: Rare Doings at the Restoration, volume 1, page 14

Forms of fanteague

pluralfanteagues

Questions about fanteague

What is fanteague the alternative form of?
Fanteague is the alternative form of fantigue.

Words near fanteague in the dictionary

  1. fantasylike
  2. fantasywear
  3. Fantauzzi
  4. Fantauzzis
  5. Fante
  6. fanteague
  7. fanteagues
  8. Fantee
  9. fanteeg
  10. fanteegs
  11. Fantees

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