Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as faiks, facks, etc., variations of faith.

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  • interjection Ireland Eye dialect spelling of fecks.

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Examples

  • The whole is called secundine in English, and in French "arriere faix."

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Les clients qu'elle préferait étaient les porte-faix, les forts de la halle, les chauffeurs du chemin de fer.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Various

  • "An 'faix I niver bruk me wurrud at all, at all, I'll swear, sor."

    Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • -- I hopes as how it'll be by a Roosian, or a Proosian, or a dacint Christian man of some sort or t'other, an 'not, faix, by one of thim yaller-faced

    Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • But, faix, sor, a poor woman as the professor knows is took moighty bad in her inside, some of her neighbours says, an 'wants help at onst!'

    The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

  • Avant la distillation, les entrailles de l'enfant et l'arrière-faix de la mère avaient été portés à

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • "The divil," said Terence McCann, "he dhrummed us over the wather, an 'through the wather; and faix, he would have dhrummed the sculp from Hamilton's head and the Colonel had said the worrd."

    The Crossing 1904

  • That ’s the notion’s come home wid me; faix, I get thinkin’ it every odd while,

    A Curlew's Call 1895

  • Then there's Lord and Lady Killbally; faix there's no iliganter family on this counthryside, and they has the beautiful quality stoppin 'wid thim, begob!

    Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • Paddy, the gossoon that drives the car (it's a gossoon we call him, but faix he stands five fut nine in his stockin's, when he wears anny) -- Paddy, as I'm afther tellin 'you, lives in a cabin down below the knockaun, a thrifle back of the road.

    Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

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