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Definition of Fantigue
1. n. State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor.
Definition of Fantigue
1. anxiety [n -S] - See also: anxiety
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fantigue
Literary usage of Fantigue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"fantigue. Irritability, ill humour. " She was in a fine fantigue," ie in a state
of great excitement. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"Yet there are those who would laugh at the idea oí a Bear being mesmerised !
WHAT MRS. GRUNDY SAYS ABOUT OUR TROUBLES THERE'S always some fantigue to vex ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1864)
"Upon my word, Hillyar, this fantigue of yours approaches lunacy. To keep a noble
high-mettled boy like Erne cooped up among grey-headed grooms and footmen, ..."
4. Irish Idylls by Jane Barlow (1893)
"He kep' such talkin' of a Peg he had, that we settled he'd fell out wid his
sweetheart about somethin', and run off in a fantigue. " Then afther that he was ..."
5. Strangers at Lisconnel: A Second Series of Irish Idylls by Jane Barlow (1895)
"... until he took his fantigue. Rael quare it is." " Most things do be quare and
ugly these times," said Mrs. Ahern, " Goodness help us all. ..."
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