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- adjective UK, slang
cunning ,sly
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Examples
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Page: 20 too faucy by calling for fawce or any dainty thing.
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675
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Come my friend _Coridon_, this _Trout_ looks lovely, it was twenty two inches when it was taken, and the belly of it look'd some part of it as yellow as a Marygold, and part of it as white as a Lily, and yet me thinks it looks better in this good fawce.
The Complete Angler 1653 Izaak Walton 1638
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Come my friend Coridon, this Trout looks lovely, it was twenty two inches when it was taken, and the belly of it look’d some part of it as yellow as a Marygold, and part of it as white as a Lily, and yet me thinks it looks better in this good fawce.
The Compleat Angler 2007
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