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fanteeg

fanteeg is the eye dialect spelling 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 fanteeg

pluralfanteegs

Questions about fanteeg

What is fanteeg the eye dialect spelling of?
Fanteeg is the eye dialect spelling of fantigue.

Words near fanteeg in the dictionary

  1. Fantauzzis
  2. Fante
  3. fanteague
  4. fanteagues
  5. Fantee
  6. fanteeg
  7. fanteegs
  8. Fantees
  9. fanti
  10. fantigue
  11. fantigues

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