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fawney slang.|ˈfɔːnɪ|
[a. Irish fáin(n)e ring.]
1. A finger-ring.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Fawney, a finger-ring. 1834H. Ainsworth Rookwood iii. v, Fogles and fawnies soon went their way. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 423 He wears a stunning fawny on his finger.
2. a. = fawney rig. to go on the fawney: to practise the fawney-rig. b. One who practises the fawney-rig.
1781G. 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.]’. 1789― Life's Painter 174, Fawny, an old, stale trick, called ring-dropping.
3. Comb., as fawney-dropper, fawney-dropping; fawney-bouncing, selling rings for a pretended wager; fawney-bouncer; fawney-rig (see quot.).
1781G. Parker View Society II. 166 The Fawney rig. 1823Egan 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. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 351, I do a little in the Fawney dropping line. 1857‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulg. Tongue 39 Fawney droppers gammon the flats and take the yokels in.
Hence ˈfawneyed [-ed2], ringed.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Fawnied or fawney-fam'd, having one or more rings on the finger. 1834H. Ainsworth Rookwood iii. v, My fawnied famms. |