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fains! ⇨ fainits!; fain I!; fains!; fain it!; faynights!; fainites! used to call a playground truce. Schoolchildren's use, probably from conventional 'feign' (to pretend) hence 'to shirk', 'to evade'; often used in conjunction with a fingers-crossed gesture, the middle finger twisted over and around the forefinger, in the traditional sign of the cross, hence the call for truce may actually be a plea for sanctuary derived from conventional 'fen', corrupted from French fend (to forbid); note also 'forfend' (to protect) as in the phrase 'Heaven forfend' UK, 1870
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