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fegary dial. and colloq.|fɪˈgɛərɪ|
Also 7 fagarie, -ary, 7–8 figary, (7 figuary), 8 fleegerie, 9 fee-, fleegary.
[A corruption of vagary.]
1. A vagary, prank, freak; a whim, eccentricity.
1600Dekker Fortunatus Wks. 1873 I. 116 Your body is little mended by your fetching fegaries. 1625Shirley Love-tricks iii. v, I have a great desire to be taught some of your figaries. 1659Lady Alimony ii. i. in Hazl. Dodsley XIV. 289, I know all their fagaries to a hair. 1663Flagellum, or O. Cromwell (1672) 60 Caprichio's of Biennial Parliaments and the like Figaries. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) V. 183 The world must stand still for their figaries.
2. Gewgaws, trifles; fineries in dress.
1724Ramsay Love inviting Reason iii, Dinna prefer your fleegeries to me. 1808Mayne Siller Gun 56 iii. 2 Grave dames in a' their nice feegaries. 1823Tennant Card. Beaton i. iii, As braw a hizzie, wi' her fardingales and her fleegaries, as ony.
Hence feˈgary (also flagary), v. intr., to busy oneself about trifles in dress.
1821H. Duncan Young S. Country Weaver (ed. 2) 45 Did I come hame..to stan' and look at your flagarying there? |