Meanings
nounfackins (uncountable)
alternative fackings · alternative feckins · alternative fegs
- obsoleteuncountableUsed in exclamatory phrases to express surprise, insistence, etc.
I proteſt— ― No, no, you ſhall not proteſt, couſſe. ― By my fakins, but I will, by your leave;[…]
1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii, page 121 more example
I suppose he hath left me mourning; but, i’fackins! if that be all, the devil shall wear it for him, for me.
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 152
Origin
Corruption of fay, faith ( + -kins).
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