fains!

fains!
(faynits!)
exclamation
British
a cry demanding a truce or exemption from something (such as being caught or penalised in a playground game). The various forms of the word are a survival of the archaic 'fains' or 'fains I' which means forbid and is related to the standard English fend.
► 'The air echoed with cries of pax, unpax, fains, roter, shutup.' (Back in the Jug Agane, Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, 1959)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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