fainaigueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Origin uncertain; perhaps:

• related to Old French fornoiier, fornier (“to deny”), from for- (prefix expressing error, exclusion, または inadequacy) + noiier, nier (“to deny”) (compare Late Latin forīsnegāre (“to renege, repudiate”), where the Frankish for- is rendered into Latin as forīs), from Latin negāre (“to deny; to refuse, say no; to reject, turn down (something)”), from nē (“no; not”) + aiō (“to affirm, say ‘yes’”))^[1] (for the word ending, compare reneague (“to refuse to follow suit in a card game, renege; to deny, refuse; act of refusing to follow suit in a card game”) (Britain, dialectal));^[2] or
• from feign (“to pretend”) + ague (“intermittent fever; (廃れた用法) acute fever”), or French aigüe (“(medicine) acute”) (as in maladie aiguë (“acute illness”)), literally “to act sick”.^[3]

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /fəˈneɪɡ/, /-ˈniːɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fəˈneɪɡ/, /-ˈniɡ/
• 韻: -eɪɡ, -iːɡ
• ハイフネーション: fai‧naigue

動詞

fainaigue (三人称単数 現在形 fainaigues, 現在分詞 fainaiguing, 過去形および過去分詞形 fainaigued) (chiefly Britain, dialectal)

1. (transitive)
   1. To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.
      • 1958, [Jay] Saunders Redding, “Mississippi Delta”, in Lewis Gannett, editor, The Lonesome Road: The Story of the Negro’s Part in America (Mainstream of America Series), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, OCLC 729962133, page 111:

        [Edmund] Richardson's contract lapsed in 1871, but five years later the almost incredible Jones Hamilton, who played with plantations, race tracks, railroads, and steamboats as a reckless boy plays with marbles, fainaigued a similar agreement.

      • 1969 September, Fintan M. Phayer, “Adam Adami and the Peace of Westphalia”, in Timothy Fry, editor, The American Benedictine Review, volume XX, number 3, Atchison, Kan.: The American Benedictine Academy, ISSN 0002-7650, OCLC 906131265, page 329:

        The Swabian abbots were in this way fainaigued into choosing [Adam] Adami, but this arrangement still left him without the so-called Virilstimme or final vote.

      • 1991, Harry Partch, “Bitter Music”, in Thomas McGeary, editor, Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos (Music in American Life), 1st paperback edition, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, published 2000, →ISBN, part 1 (Two Journals), page 28:

        After much waving of arms I discover that—although meals of a sort are furnished—you are expected to provide your own dishes, if, indeed, you anticipate this refinement in eating. I finally fainaigue a tin plate out of the mess department, for which I am required to give two lire.

   2. To cheat or deceive (someone).
      • 1880, M[argaret] A[nn] Courtney, “Feneaged”, in M. A. Courtney; Thomas Q[uiller] Couch, Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall, London: […] [F]or the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], OCLC 156101835, page 21, column 1:

        He agreed with the boy for a month at £4 a-year, and he went away and feneaged that boy, and never took him nor paid him.

      • 2010 June 3, Neil Baker, “Jest because You’re You”, in G Day: Please God, Get Me Off the Hook, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 142:

        [H]e was doing a stitch of time in Ohio for embezzlement and for fainaiguing a good-hearted Jack under the alias Joseph […]

2. (intransitive)
   1. To evade work or shirk responsibility.
   2. To fail to keep a promise; to renege.
   3. (card games) To renege (“break one's commitment to follow suit when capable”).
      • [1888, Q. [pseudonym; Arthur Quiller-Couch], “Of Deterioration; and a Wheelbarrow that Contained Unexpected Things”, in The Astonishing History of Troy Town, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], OCLC 1231020562, page 147:

        When Mr. Simpson had spoken of the "Jack of Oaks" (meaning the Knave of Clubs), or had said "fainaiguing" (where others said "revoking"), we had pretended not to notice it, until at length we actually did not.]

派生語

• fainaiguing (adjective, noun)
• fainaiguer
• finagle

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