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Fagin

Definition: Fagin

Fagin

Noun

1. A villainous Jew in Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist"; Fagin was a fence who trained boys as pickpockets.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Fagin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

"Fagin" is a common misspelling or typo for: feign.



Specialty Definitions: Fagin

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Fagin An infamous Jew, who teaches boys and girls to rob with dexterity. (Dickens: Oliver Twist.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Fagin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Fagin is a fictional character from the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. Who leads a group of pickpockets.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fagin."

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Modern Usage: Fagin

DomainUsage

Screenplays

No, she won't, Fagin. (Oliver Twist; writing credit: Alan Bleasdale; Charles Dickens)

Fagin, this sausage is moldy! (Oliver!; writing credit: Charles Dickens; Lionel Bart)

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Commercial Usage: Fagin

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fagin (reference)

  • Talkin With Your Mouth Full: Conversations With the Videos of Steve Fagin (reference)

  • The case of the Fagin file (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Fagin

"Fagin" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.00% of the time. "Fagin" is used about 50 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)94%4749,740
Noun (singular)6%3202,518
                    Total100.00%50N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Fagin

The following table summarizes the usage of "Fagin" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
FaginLast name1,00015,200
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Fagin

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Fagin": fagin-style.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fagin

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fagin

11

fagin joe mp3

4

dan fagin

3

jill fagin

3

claire fagin

2

grant fagin

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fagin

Language Translations for "fagin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

aginfay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Fagin

Derivations

Words beginning with "Fagin": fagins. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Fagin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afgan, Fagen, faggi, Faggiani, fagina, fagins, fagun, Fargion, Farin, Fegina, Feigin, Fengmin, Figini, Figino, fogin, Fugen, Zagni. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Fagin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-n"

-1 letter: agin, fain, fang, gain, naif.

-2 letters: ain, ani, fag, fan, fig, fin, gan, gin, nag.

-3 letters: ag, ai, an, fa, if, in, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-g-i-n"
 

+1 letter: facing, fading, fagins, faking, faming, faring, fating, faxing, faying, fazing.

 

+2 letters: afghani, baffing, barfing, chafing, daffing, fabling, facings, fadging, fadings, fagging, failing, fairing, falling, fanning, farcing, farding, farming, farting, fashing, fasting, fatling, fatting, fawning, fearing, feasing, feazing, finagle, flaking, flaming, flaring, flawing, flaying, foaling, foaming, framing, fraying, gaffing, gainful, hafting, ingraft, leafing, loafing, magnify, rafting, waffing, wafting, waifing, yaffing.

 

+3 letters: affixing, afghanis, baffling, chaffing, crafting, defacing, defaming, drafting, dwarfing, effacing, enfacing, faceting, fagoting, failings, fainting, fairings, faithing, fancying, fanglike, fanlight, farmings, farthing, fastings, fatlings, faulting, favoring, feasting, figurant, finagled, finagler, finagles, firefang, fixating, flacking, flagging, flailing, flamingo, flamming, flanging, flanking, flapping, flashing, flatling, flatting, floating, foraging, foraying, fragging, framings, franking, frapping, frayings, freaking, fumigant, grafting, hangfire, infrugal, ingrafts, magnific, piaffing, quaffing, raffling, refacing, scarfing, shafting, sheafing, snafuing, staffing, strafing, unfading, wafering, waffling, wharfing.

 

+4 letters: aerifying, affecting, affirming, affording, affraying, angelfish, argufying, basifying, befalling, befleaing, casefying, catfacing, deafening, defanging, defatting, defeating, deflating, defleaing, defoaming, defraying, draftings, enflaming, enframing, facetting, factoring, faggoting, fagotings, failingly, fallowing, faltering, famishing, fanlights, farrowing, farseeing, farthings, fastening, fathering, fathoming, fatiguing, fattening, favouring, fawningly, featuring, fellating, fenagling, figurants, filiating, finaglers, finagling, financing, firefangs, flagellin, flaggings, flambeing, flamingly, flamingos, flaringly, flashings, flatlings, flaunting, flavoring, foliating, forsaking, fraggings, frangible, franglais, frazzling, fumigants, furcating, furnacing, gainfully, gasifying, guffawing, hangfires, infalling, inflaming, inflating, ingrafted, kingcraft, magnifico, magnified, magnifier, magnifies, nazifying, nightfall, nonfading, outfacing, pacifying, panfrying, prefacing, prefading, profaning, ramifying, rarefying, rarifying, ratifying, refalling, reflating, reframing, safariing, safetying, salifying, sangfroid, sclaffing, seafaring, shaftings, snaffling, sulfating, surfacing, tariffing, unfailing, upwafting, wafflings, wayfaring.

 

+5 letters: acetifying, acidifying, affiancing, afflicting, affronting, airlifting, amplifying, anglerfish, antifungal, ausforming, backfiring, bafflingly, batfowling, beatifying, bedwarfing, beflagging, boldfacing, buffaloing, calcifying, carnifying, catfacings, chaffering, chamfering, clarifying, coalifying, confabbing, conflating, damnifying, dandifying, defaulting, defecating, defilading, defrauding, enfilading, engrafting, faggotings, fairground, falsifying, fancifying, fanfolding, fantasying, faradising, faradizing, fashioning, fastenings, feathering, federating, figuration, filmmaking, filtrating, finalising, finalizing, financings, fingernail, firefanged, flagellins, flaggingly, flamingoes, flanneling, flatlining, flattening, flattering, flavorings, flavouring, focalising, focalizing, forbearing, forearming, foredating, formatting, forwarding, fracturing, frangipane, frangipani, fraughting, freebasing, fumigating, fumigation, fungicidal, gauffering, grainfield, gratifying, infracting, ingrafting, intergraft, kingcrafts, ladyfinger, leafleting, lifesaving, mafficking, magnifical, magnificat, magnificos, magnifiers, magnifying, meaningful, misframing, nightfalls, offloading, opacifying, outfabling, outfasting, outfawning, prefabbing, qualifying, ragamuffin, reaffixing, redrafting, refloating, refracting, refraining, regrafting, restaffing, sangfroids, satisfying, scarifying, seafarings, sufflating, surfacings, tackifying, unfadingly, unflagging, wharfinger.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fagin


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 67 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-    --.    ..    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#103 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0067 0069 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4067737580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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