faynits!

faynits!
exclamation
British
an alternative form of fains!

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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  • 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… …   Contemporary slang

  • fainites! — (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… …   Contemporary slang

  • pax exclamation — British a request for a truce, usually heard in the course of children s games. The word is Latin for peace and was formerly used by public school masters as well as boys to appeal for calm or silence. Non public schoolchildren usually employed… …   Contemporary slang

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