feak

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He turned himself into a sideshow feak, and as goes the way of all sideshows, he's gone.

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  1. To fidget; be restless.
  2. A flutter; a sharp twitch or pull.
  3. A curl of hair. And can set his face and with his eye can speke And dally with his mistres dangling feake, And wish that he were it, to kiss her eye. Marston, Satires (1598), i.
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  • He turned himself into a sideshow feak, and as goes the way of all sideshows, he's gone. —  KKTV - HomePage - Headlines
  • On a certain morning, when one of them was leading the devotions, he prayed the Lord to 'have mercy on us, feak and weeble sinners.'" —  Pushing to the Front
 

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  1. A dial. English form of fick, fike, q. v.
  2. from feak, v.
  3. Prob. variant of feague, in orig. (D.) sense ‘sweep.’
 

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