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feeny,feany ,feenie ????

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Metz | 22:53 Thu 01st Feb 2007 | Word Origins
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Is there an origin to this word ? not sure of the spelling but i think it's meaning is to pinch someone/and or be spiteful ??
I may well have the meaning wrong ?
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When I was at primary school in the 60s you could pinch someone and shout fain-its at the same time which meant they couldn't pinch you back! It worked - I was usually pinched. No matter how much it hurt you just couldn't retaliate. Strange now thinking back on it!
23:46 Thu 01st Feb 2007
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Fains, fainites and 'fains I' were all schoolboy forms of demand for a truce or some exemption...such as not being pinched in return. It probably originated in the idea of 'fend', as in to fend off an attack.
07:04 Fri 02nd Feb 2007

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