Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as faiks, facks, etc., variations of faith.
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- interjection Ireland
Eye dialect spelling offecks .
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Examples
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The whole is called secundine in English, and in French "arriere faix."
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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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
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"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
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-- 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
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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
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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
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"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
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That s the notions come home wid me; faix, I get thinkin it every odd while,
A Curlew's Call 1895
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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
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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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