different between fairing vs faining

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?????/
• Homophone: faring
• Rhymes: -?????
• Hyphenation: fair?ing

Etymology 1

From fair (“community gathering, market”). In the sense of food, because cakes and sweets were sold at fairs.

Noun

fairing (plural fairings)

1. (now archaic) A gift or other souvenir bought at a fair. [from 16th c.]
   • 1962, WH Auden & Elizabeth Mayer, translating JW Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin 1970, p. 28:

     She told me she was on her way to the fair in Bolzano and assumed I was going there too. Should we meet there, I must buy her a fairing [transl. Jahrmarkt].

2. (now rare) A present, especially given by a lover. [from 16th c.]
3. (Scotland, Ireland, now rare) Something that is deserved; one's deserts. [from 18th c.]
4. A type of small gingerbread biscuit; a ginger nut. [from 19th c.]
   • 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part I, Chapter 2,^[1]

     […] the ground […] was already being occupied by the “cheap Jacks,” with their green-covered carts and marvellous assortment of wares; and the booths of more legitimate small traders, with their tempting arrays of fairings and eatables; and penny peep-shows and other shows, containing pink-eyed ladies, and dwarfs, and boa-constrictors, and wild Indians.

Derived terms

• Cornish fairing
• get one's fairing

Etymology 2

From fair (“to smoothen or even a surface”).

Verb

fairing

1. present participle of fair

Noun

fairing (plural fairings)

1. A structure on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag. [from 20th c.]

Translations

See also

• fairing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• fairing in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Fairing”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 29, column 1.

Anagrams

• Firangi, argifin, firangi

English

Verb

faining

1. present participle of fain