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fegs Obs. exc. Sc. and dial.|fɛgz|
Forms: 6–7 feckins, 6–8 fackins, 7–8 faikine, 8 feggings, 9 faikins, 7 fac, feck, 7–9 facks, 8–9 fags, 9 faags, faiks, feck(s, faix, 8– fegs.
[The forms here collected are distortions of fay n.1, faith, perh. with suffix -kins, frequent in such trivial quasi-oaths; cf. bodykins, by'rlakin.]
1. As an (unmeaning) n. in exclamatory phrases expressing asseveration or astonishment. See also i'fegs.
1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. iii, By my fackins. 1600Heywood 1 Edw. I, iii. i, No, by my feckins! 1610B. Jonson Alch. i. ii, How! Sweare by your fac? a1627Middleton Quiet Life ii. ii, By my facks, sir. 16..Robin Hood & Q. Kath. 90 in Furniv. Percy Folio I. 42 By faikine of my body. a1654Webster & Rowley Cure for Cuckold iv. iii, By my feck. 1726Vanbrugh Journ. Lond. iii. i, No, by good feggings. 1768Beattie To Mr. A. Ross v, O' my fegs. 1880Jamieson s.v., My faiks! 1884Chester Gloss., Good Fecks!
2. As simple asseverative.
1638Brome Antipodes v. iv. Wks. 1873 III. 322 Nay facks I am not jealous. 1790A. Wilson To W. Mitchell Poet. Wks. (1846) 113 Fegs. 1804Anderson Cumbrld. Ball. 104 Sae faikins we mun hev a sweat. 1863Tyneside Songs 86 Faix they've got a warnin'. 1875Sussex Gloss., Why! you are smart, fegs! 1891Barrie Little Minister II. 191 Na, faags! it was waur than that. |