fainaigue /fəˈneɪɡ/ verb5 •(dialect, UK) To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.The Swabian abbots were in this way fainaigued into choosing [Adam] Adami, but this arrangement still left him without the so-called Virilstimme or final vote. — 1969 •(dialect, UK) To cheat or deceive (someone).He agreed with the boy for a month at £4 a-year, and he went away and feneaged that boy, and never took him nor paid him. — 1880 •(dialect, UK) To evade work or shirk responsibility. •(dialect, UK) To fail to keep a promise; to renege. •(dialect, UK) To renege (“break one's commitment to follow suit when capable”). formsfainaigued · fainaiguing · fainaigues