different between feagued vs feague

English

Verb

feagued

1. simple past tense and past participle of feague.

Alternative forms

• feaked

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fi??/

Alternative forms

• feak

Etymology 1

From Dutch vegen (“to sweep, to strike”), from Middle Dutch v?ghen (“to cleanse”), from Old Dutch *feg?n (“to cleanse”), from Proto-Germanic *fagin?n? (“to decorate, make beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *p??-, *p??- (“to clean, to adorn”). Cognate with Danish feje (“to sweep”), German fegen (“to cleanse, scour, sweep”), Icelandic fægja (“to polish”), Swedish feja (“to sweep”). More at fay, fair, fake.

Verb

feague (third-person singular simple present feagues, present participle feaguing, simple past and past participle feagued)

1. To increase the liveliness of a horse by inserting an irritant, such as a piece of peeled raw ginger or a live eel, in its anus.
   • 2004, Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld; 33), London: Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-60342-3; republished London: Corgi Books, 2014, ISBN 978-0-552-16768-0, page 251:

     Run along to Hobson's Livery Stable and tell them I want a good fast horse, right? Something with a bit of fizz in its blood! Not some feagued-up old screw, and I know the difference! I want it here in half an hour! Off you go!
2. (obsolete) To beat or whip; to drive.
   • 1671, John Crowne, Juliana, or The Princess of Poland: A Tragicomedy, as it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke of York's Theatre, London: Printed for Will Cademan [...] and Will Birch, OCLC 606574495, Act I, scene ix; republished in The Dramatic Works of John Crowne. With Prefatory Memoir and Notes (Dramatists of the Restoration; Crowne 1–4), Edinburgh: William Paterson; London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1873, OCLC 906095949, page 34:

     [T]here's one Count Sharnofsky, too, such another ambitious dry-chops, he hath not the grace to love good drink, and yet he hath the impudence to aim at the Crown. […] [H]e squints at it fearfully, and he hath an itch at the Princess too; (Landlord squints, and makes grim-faces,) but I hope the Cardinal will feage [footnote: "Whip" or "beat."] 'um all.

   • 1681, Thomas Otway, The Souldiers Fortune: A Comedy. Acted by Their Royal Highnesses Servants at the Duke's Theatre, London: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes, at the Post-House in Russel-Street in Covent-Garden, OCLC 5291125; republished as “The Soldier's Fortune”, in The Works of Thomas Otway. In Three Volumes. With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, by Thomas Thornton, Esq., volume II, London: Printed for T. Turner, 87, Strand, (successor to John MacKinlay); by B. M?Millan, Bow Street, Covent Garden, 1813, OCLC 9503722, Act 5, page 391:

     Beau[gard]. Hark ye, ye curs, keep off from snapping at my heels, or I shall so feague ye.
3. (obsolete) To subject to some harmful scheme; to ‘do in’.
   • 1672, William Wycherley, Love in a Wood, or, St James's Park. A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majesties Servants, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, at the sign of the Blew Anchor, in the Lower-Walk of the New Exchange, OCLC 863466563, Act I, scene i; republished as Love in a Wood, or, St James's Park. A Comedy. As it is Acted by their Majesties Servants, London: Printed by T[homas] Warren for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold by R. Bentley, J[acob] Tonson, F. Saunders, and T. Bennet, 1694, OCLC 18111987, page 7:

     Sir Sim[on Addlepot]. I will carry the Widow to the French Hou?e. / [Mrs.] Joyn[er]. If ?he will go. / Sir Sim. If ?he will go? why, did you ever know a Widow refu?e a treat? no more than a Lawyer a Fee, Faith and troth, yet I know too, No treat, ?weet words, good meen, but ?ly Intrigue, That mu?t at length, the jilting Widow feague.
4. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.

Synonyms

• (increase the liveliness of a horse): ginger
• (beat or whip): flog, lash; see also Thesaurus:whip
• (subject to some harmful scheme):
• (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Related terms

• (to have sexual intercourse with): feak, feek (slang, Ireland)

Etymology 2

Possibly from Dutch feeks, probably from vegen (“to sweep, strike”): see etymology of feague (verb) above. Compare Middle English vecke (“old woman”).

Noun

feague (plural feagues)

1. (obsolete) An unkempt, slatternly person.

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