fainaigue

Verb

(third-person singular simple present fainaigues, present participle fainaiguing, simple past and past participle fainaigued)

(intransitive) To evade work or shirk responsibility
(intransitive) To renege in card games

Origin

Unknown Britishism, of uncertain origin.

Maybe from fain, homonym of feign (“to pretend”) and ague (“acute illness”) or cognate French aigüe (as in maladie aiguë, “acute illness”) – literally “to act sick”.

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