go Fantee

verb

To go native; to adopt the habits etc. of native people.

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Meanings

verbgo Fantee (third-person singular simple present goes Fantee, present participle going Fantee, simple past went Fantee, past participle gone Fantee)

present singular third person goes Fantee · participle present going Fantee · past went Fantee · participle past gone Fantee

  1. archaicTo go native; to adopt the habits etc. of native people.

    He was perpetually ‘going Fantee’ among natives, which, of course, no man with any sense believes in.

    1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal's Sais”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2007, page 24
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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