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Fawney. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Fawney slang. [a. Irish fáin(n)e ring.]

1   1.  A finger-ring.

2 1812.  J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Fawney, a finger-ring.

3 1834.  W. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, III. v., ‘Jerry Juniper’s Chaunt.’        Fogles and fawnies soon went their way,                     Fake away, To the spout with the sneezers in grand array, No dummy hunter had forks so fly;             Nix my doll palls, fake away.

4 1831.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 423. He wears a stunning fawny on his finger.

5   2.  a. = Fawny rig. To go on the fawney: to practise the fawney-rig. b. One who practises the fawney-rig.

6 1781.  G. Parker, View Society, II. 167. There is a large shop in London where these kind of rings are sold, for the purpose of going on the Fawney. Ibid. The Fawney says, ‘I dare say some poor woman [etc.].’ Ibid. (1789), Life’s Painter, 174. Fawny, an old, stale trick, called ring-dropping.

7   3.  Comb., as fawney-dropper, -dropping; fawney-bouncing, selling rings for a pretended wager; fawney-bouncer; fawney-rig (see quot.).

8 1781.  G. Parker, View Society, II. 166. The Fawney rig.

9 1823.  Egan, Grose’s Dict. Vulgar Tongue, Fawney rig, a common fraud thus practised:—a fellow drops a brass ring, double gilt, which he picks up before the party meant to be cheated, and to whom he disposes of it for less than its supposed, and ten times more than its real, value.

10 1851.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 351. I do a little in the Fawney dropping line.

11 1857.  ‘Ducange Anglicus,’ Vulg. Tongue, 39. Fawney droppers gammon the flats and take the yokels in.

12   Hence Fawneyed [-ED2], ringed.

13 1812.  J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Fawnied or fawney-fam’d, having one or more rings on the finger.

14 1834.  W. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, III. v., ‘Jerry Juniper’s Chaunt.’        With my fawnied famms, and my onions gay,                     Fake away, My thimble of ridge, and my driz kemesa; All my togs were so niblike and splash,             Nix my doll palls, fake away.

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