Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
fack .
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- noun Used in exclamatory phrases to express surprise, insistence, etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I-fackins, madam, it is no wonder the squire run on so about your ladyship.
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She then proceeded thus: I dont pretend to give your laship advice, whereof your laship knows much better than I can pretend to, being but a servant; but, i-fackins! no father in England should marry me against my consent.
VI. Containing a Dialogue Between Sophia and Mrs. Honour. Book VI 1917
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I-fackins, madam, it is no wonder the squire run on so about your ladyship.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730
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Klinker, bid him be sivil, and he gave the young man a dowse in the chops; but, I fackins, Mr Klinker wa’n’t long in his debt — with a good oaken sapling he dusted his doublet, for all his golden cheese toaster; and, fipping me under his arm, carried me huom, I nose not how, being I was in such a flustration —
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She then proceeded thus: "I don't pretend to give your la'ship advice, whereof your la'ship knows much better than I can pretend to, being but a servant; but, i-fackins! no father in England should marry me against my consent.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730
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