Feint

Definitions: Feint

Feint

Noun

1. Any distracting maneuver (as a mock attack).

Verb

1. Deceive with a feint.

Date "feint" was first used: 1679. (references)

Domain	Definitions
19th Century Satire	A pugilist's bluff. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Slang in 1811	FEINT. A sham attack on one part, when a real one is meant at another. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Sports & Leisure	In making a feint or fake the change the direction of approach. . Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Feint

Synonym: simulation. (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deception	Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Feint

Specialty definitions using "feint": BLIND ♦ FEINT. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Feint" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (affected, fake, false, feigned, ostensible, pretended, sham), Frisian (attendant, fiancé, servant, youngster, youth).

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Celui-ci feint de savoir. / Ch. Philipon invt. et delt.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		General Blotchit, take your tanks and feint at Lynchville ... / Ollie Harrington.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Those of the prisoners who awoke made a feint of going to sleep again, and let Gueulemer and Brujon alone.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Feint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Feint" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	90%	18	82,615
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	5%	1	339,140
Lexical Verb (base form)	5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	20	N/A

Expression using "feint": feint attack. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "feint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		të shtirët, sulm i shtirë, lëvizje mashtruese (pass). (various references)

Arabic		‏مكر (archness, artfulness, artifice, brown, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, double dealing, fish, foxiness, furtiveness, guile, ploy, roguery, ruse, sham, slyness, trick, wiliness), ‏هجوم مخادع, ‏تكلم بصراحة, ‏تظاهر (affect, assume, counterfeit, demonstrate, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, make believe, march, pose, posture, pretence, pretend, put on, seem, sham, show, simulate, simulation), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile). (various references)

Bulgarian		финт, преструвка (affectation, dissimulation, pose, pretence, pretense, pretension, sham, simulacrum). (various references)

Czech		omdlít (black out, faint, go out, pass out, swoon). (various references)

Danish		papir til datamaskineudskrift med enkeltark og flerdobbelte ark,tynd og fedfin linjering (feint ruled and shaded continuous listing paper, single and multi-part). (various references)

Dutch		fint (schermen), fingering (simulation), voorwenden (feign, give as an excuse, pretend, simulation), veinzerij (simulation), simuleren (feign, malinger, pretend, simulation), nabootsing (counterfeiting, fake, imitation, simulation), bedrieglijk voorgeven (simulation). (various references)

Finnish		valeoikeustoimi (fictitious transaction, sham contract, sham deed, sham transaction, simulation), simulaatio (simulation). (various references)

French		feinte. (various references)

German		Verstellung (adjustment, alteration, blockage, disguise, dissimulation, feigning, misaligned, misplacing, moving, obstruction, pretending, shifting, simulation), finte (dummy, ruse, subterfuge). (various references)

Greek		προσποίηση (artificiality, dissimulation, make believe, pretence, sham, simulation). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"טעות (deceit, mislead, mystify), �"טעי�" (deception, fallaciousness, misleading, sophistry). (various references)

Hungarian		színlelt támadás (false attack), színlelés (affectation, assumption, counterfeit, disingenuousness, dissimulation, make-believe, pose, pretence, pretense, simulation), megtévesztő támadás, cselfogás (stratagem). (various references)

Italian		finzione (blind, deceit, deceitfulness, fiction, figment, invention, make believe, Masquerade, pretence, pretense, sham, simulation), finta (feigning, pretence, pretense, sham), simulazione (concealment, faking, feigning, gaming, malingering, pretence, pretense, putting forward something as genuine, simulation, supposition), occultamento (concealment, dissimulation, hiding, occultation, simulation), dissimulazione (dissimulation, simulation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		牽制 (check, constraint, diversion, restraint, screen). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		け�"せい (check, constitutional government, constraint, diversion, influence, power, prefectural strengths, restraint, screen). (various references)

Manx		lhiggey er (affectation, affectedness, counterfeit, dissimulate, dissimulation, feign, feigning, make-believe, pose, pretence, pretend, profess, sham, simulate, simulation), eddrym (airy, airy material, benign, bird-witted, empty, empty as head, flighty, light, lightweight, shallow, slight, weak, weak as blow). (various references)

Pig Latin		eintfay

Portuguese		simulação (affectation, agreed simulation, bluff, collusion, disguise, feigning, get a leg in, hold, make believe, malingering, pretend, pretension, putting forward something as genuine, simulacrum, simulation, supposition). (various references)

Romanian		fentã (dodge), simulat (assumed, feigned, mimic, seeming), simulare (affectation, assumption, make believe, simulation), prefãcãtorie (acting, cant, disguise, dissimulation, double dealing, felinity, hypocrisy, make believe, pretence, sham, simulacrum, simulation), atac simulat, afectare (affectation, affecting, archness, demureness, dissimulation, fastidiousness, foppery, foppishness, hypercriticism, mannerism, pose, preciosity, primness, sham). (various references)

Russian		финт, ложный выпад, притворство (affectation, affectations, airs, assumption, dissemblance, dissimulation, false pretences, hypocrisy, make believe, make-believe, sham, simulation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lažni napad. (various references)

Spanish		finta, treta (contrivance, ruse, trickery, wheeze). (various references)

Swedish		krigslist, fint (dodge, dummy, fine, good show, good work, nice, nicely, stratagem, that's great). (various references)

Thai		โจมตีแบบกลลวง, การเสแสร้ง (make-believe, semblance), การโจมตีแบบกลลวง. (various references)

Turkish		zayıf (atonic, bad mark, faint, fatless, feeble, flaccid, flagging, frail, gaunt, gracile, invertebrate, lean, low, nerveless, pithless, poor, puny, shaky, sinewless, slight, slim, small, spare, spent, thin, unmanly, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), yanıltmak (belie), vuracak gibi yapmak, vuracak gibi yapma, hafif (airy, blancmange, cushy, digestible, distant, dulcet, easy of digestion, feeble, frail, frivolous, lenient, light, lightly, lightweight, loose, mild, piano, slight, small, soft, subdued, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, wishy washy), aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, bilk, cheat, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, fake, finagle, Fox, gammon, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, palter, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, spoof, string, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, trick, two time, victimize), aldatmaca (catch, legerdemain, shiftiness, sleight, sleight of hand, trick), çalım (air, airs, ostentation, pass, side, strut, strutting, swagger, swank, trick). (various references)

Ukranian		удавання (acting, affectation, affectedness, assumption, comedy, dissimulation, hypocrisy, make believe, pose, pretension, sham, simulation), удаваний удар, фінт (dodge), завдавати удаваного удару. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự giả cách (make-believe), ngón nhử sự giả vờ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	simila, similare, similari, similasti, similatus, similem, similes, simula, simulans, simulantes, simularent, simularetur, simulas, simulata, simulator, simulaverant. (various references)
French	1500-Modern	feinte. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "feint": feinted, feinting, feints. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Feint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deint, efin, faind, Fecit, Fedin, fednet, feeny, feien, feignt, feigt, fein, feind, feinty, feion, feist, feit, Fejn, femin, fenet, Feni, fenig, fenil, fent, fentt, feon, Fevin, Fewins, feynt, fien, Fiene, fieniet, fieno, fient, Fienta, fieny, Filinto, finet, finit, finth, fixint, foant, foent, foint, frein, Friant, frint, Fuent, fuint, veint. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "feint" (pronounced fā"nt)
4	f ā" n t	faint.
3	-ā" n t	acquaint, complaint, constraint, paint, quaint, repaint, restraint, Saint, taint.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-i-n-t"
	-1 letter: fine, neif, nite, tine.
	-2 letters: eft, fen, fet, fie, fin, fit, net, nit, ten, tie, tin.
	-3 letters: ef, en, et, if, in, it, ne, ti.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-i-n-t"
	+1 letter: feints, feting, finest, finite, infect, infest.
	+2 letters: antefix, benefit, defiant, fainest, fainted, fainter, feinted, felting, fetting, fifteen, figment, finites, fishnet, fitment, fitness, flinted, hefting, infante, infects, infests, inflate, inflect, liftmen, niftier, nifties, snifter, stiffen.
	+3 letters: antefixa, antileft, antilife, benefits, clefting, confetti, definite, faceting, faineant, fainters, faintest, fanciest, fantasie, fawniest, feasting, feinting, felinity, feltings, feminist, feminity, fenthion, ferniest, ferritin, fetation, fetching, fettling, fifteens, figments, filament, fileting, finitely, finitude, finniest, fishnets, fistnote, fitments, flatline, flection, fleeting, flinkite, flintier, frenetic, fretting, frighten, frontier, funkiest, funniest, gentrify, identify, infantes, infected, infecter, infector, infested, infester, infinite, inflated, inflater, inflates, inflects, influent, leftwing, manifest, niftiest, notified, notifier, notifies, pontifex, refuting, reinfect, renotify, snifters, stiffens, tefillin, tiffined, unfitted, ungifted, unsifted.
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