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fiants

fiants noun: the dung of the wolf, fox or badger.

Noun

fiants (plural or uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, plural) The dung of the wolf, fox or badger.
    • [If] they aske him how hee calleth the ordure of an Hart, Raindeare, Gote, or fallow Deare, he shall answere that they are to be called the fewmet or fewmishings[…]Of other vermine or stinking chases, as Foxes, Badgers and such like, they are called the feance[…]1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “Of the words and termes of hunting […] Chap. 37.”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611...
    • [Badgers] cast their fiants longer somewhat like a Fox[…]1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “Of the nature and properties of a Foxe and a Badgerd. Chap. 66”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot...

Origin of fiants

Borrowed from French fientes, plural of fiente (“dung”).

Questions about fiants

What does fiants mean?
Fiants means the dung of the wolf, fox or badger.
What part of speech is fiants?
Fiants is a noun.

Words near fiants in the dictionary

  1. fianelite
  2. Fianna
  3. Fianna Fáil
  4. Fianna Éireann
  5. Fians
  6. fiants
  7. fiar
  8. fiard
  9. fiards
  10. fiars
  11. fiaschi

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