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feen

feen verb: to want something obsessively; to have a strong desire (for).

Verb

feen (third-person singular simple present feens, present participle feening, simple past and past participle feened)

  1. (slang, transitive) To want something obsessively; to have a strong desire (for).
    • I can't leave you alone, You got me feenin, feenin', you got me feenin', feenin' (Got me going crazy).1993, “Feenin'”, in Diary of a Mad Band, performed by Jodeci
    • And I feened for him like a crackhead needing a hit.2003, Tia L. Lincoln, Child of Baltimore, →ISBN, page 103
    Synonyms:
    fiend, jones

Noun

feen (plural feens)

  1. (Ireland, Munster, especially, slang) (young) man, guy, bloke

Examples of feen in a sentence

  • She feened for both cocaine and heroin too, and she'd almost died when a dealer beat her down for getting tight with his supplier and trying to dip on his product.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 44:
  • You see, I'm feening, I'm needing some more and you got me grinning like it's money that I'm winning.2014, N.M. Shabazz, HalfBreed, →ISBN, page 157:
  • They're feening for that drug and they're feening for someone to offer it to them.2016, Rashi K. Shukla, Methamphetamine: A Love Story, page 117:
  • “Yeah, I'm feening for some fresh air,” Finn said, using his crutches to get to his feet.2019, Sam Kevin Daniel, Crossfire, →ISBN, page 55:

Synonyms of feen

Forms of feen

Verb
third-person singular presentfeens
present participlefeening
past participlefeened
pastfeened
Noun
pluralfeens

Origin of feen

From fiend, as a reference to drug fiend or dope fiend.

From Shelta fīn, feen (“man”), itself from Irish fiann.

Questions about feen

What does feen mean?
Feen means to want something obsessively; to have a strong desire (for).
How do you use feen in a sentence?
She feened for both cocaine and heroin too, and she'd almost died when a dealer beat her down for getting tight with his supplier and trying to dip on his product.
What part of speech is feen?
Feen can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of feen?
The past tense of feen is feened.

Words near feen in the dictionary

  1. feely boxes
  2. feely-omi
  3. Feelys
  4. Feemster
  5. Feemsters
  6. feen
  7. feend
  8. feened
  9. Feeney
  10. Feeneys
  11. feening

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