Meanings
nounfaikins (uncountable)
- IrelandUKdialectalobsoleteuncountableFaith (used in imprecations).
As she was eating, Mary kept looking in her face, and at last said, "Ah then, mother, doesn't the misthress luk mighty well? Upon my faikins, ma'am, I never seen you luking half so handsome."
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 380
Origin
From fay (“faith”) + -kins (“diminutive suffix”).
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