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Quotation dates: 1886
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FINGIE, adj. Glossed as "cowardly."Fif. 1886 "S. Tytler" St Mungo's City xxiv.:
I believe you're feared like a bairn — you're fingie enough of travellin' to a house where a coffin and a corp' are lyin'.