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fantique

fantique 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 fantique

pluralfantiques

Questions about fantique

What is fantique the alternative form of?
Fantique is the alternative form of fantigue.

Words near fantique in the dictionary

  1. fanti
  2. fantigue
  3. fantigues
  4. Fantini
  5. Fantinis
  6. fantique
  7. fantiques
  8. Fantis
  9. Fantizi
  10. fantoccini
  11. fantod

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fantique (page history and authors); fantigue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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