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▪ I. feague, n.1 dial.|fiːg|
Also 7 feak.
[Cf. Du. feeks of same meaning, referred by native etymologists to the vb. vegen (see feague v.). Also cf. ME. vecke.]
(See quot. 1781.)
1664Bold Poems 134 Three female idle feaks who long'd for pig's head. 1781Hutton Tour to Caves Gloss., Feague, a dirty, sluttish, idle person. 1869in Lonsdale Gloss.
▪ II. † feague, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
[? f. feague v.]
In phr. by fits and feags = ‘by fits and starts’.
1600Abbot Exp. Jonah 171 Neither that we apprehend grace, by fits or feags as we are urged by any present thing.
▪ III. † feague, v. Obs.
Also 7 fegue, 8 feag.
[Prob., as suggested in Bailey 1721, this and the earlier recorded variant feak v.1 (and the later fake v.) are ad. Ger. fegen lit. to polish, furbish, sweep (for the jocular applications see Grimm s.v.), or the equivalent Du. vegen. But there may be mixture of a native word; cf. feak v.3]
1. trans. To beat, whip. Also fig.
[1589–1598: ? Implied in bumfeage.] 1668G. Etherege She Would if she Could iv. ii, Let us even go into an arbour, and then feague Mr. Rakehell. 1681Otway Soldier's Fort. v, Curs, keep off from snapping at my heels, or I shall so feague ye. 1691Rabshakeh Vapulans 5 Well—on my Faith, he feagues these Black-coat Sparks. 1721–1800Bailey, Feag, to beat with Rods, to whip.
2. To ‘do for’, ‘settle the business of’; = fake v.
1668G. Etherege She Would if she Could iii. iii, Oh my little rogue..how I will turn, and wind, and fegue thy body [in a dance]! Ibid., 'Tis with a bottle we fegue her. 1671Crowne Juliana i, I hope the Cardinal will feage 'um all. 1672Wycherley Love in Wood i. i, Sly intrigue, That must at length the jilting widow fegue. 1690D'Urfey Collin's Walk London i. 6 Had not th' Times his honour fegu'd. Ibid. ii. 84 When Cataline a league Had made, the Senators to fegue.
b. (See quot.) Cf. fake v.
1785Grose Class. Dict. s.v., To feague a horse, to put ginger up a horse's fundament, to make him lively and carry his tail well.
3. to feague away: to set in motion briskly. Also fig. To agitate (a point) in one's thoughts. Also, to feague it away: to work at full stretch. (Cf. to fake away.)
1671Shadwell Humourist iii, Come in..and fegue your violins away, fa, la, la, la. 1672Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Rehearsal (1714) 55 When a knotty point comes, I lay my head close to it..and then I fegue it away i' faith. 1691Shadwell Scowrers iii. iii, Come out..I'll feague thee [partner in a dance] away. 1829Scott Jrnl. (1890) II. 240 From that hour [three] till ten..I was feaguing it away. |