Definitions for foin

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Spelling: [foin]
IPA: /fɔɪn/

Foin is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in foin (fino).

Definitions for foin

noun

  1. a thrust with a weapon.

verb (used without object)

  1. to thrust with a weapon; lunge.

Origin of foin

1325-75; Middle English (v.), apparently Old French foine fish spear Latin fuscina

Examples for foin

Rue du foin runs where hay was once made in the fields of the palace park.

He addressed the Duke thus: "foin de vous, Monseigneur; foin de moi; foin de tous les auditeurs."

They cut, thrust, and foin as fiercely as fifty Francalanzas, and are continually shouting on Saint George.

But on the other side, above Athenry, 'tis there ye'll see the foin shootin'.

Misther Blake was dhrivin' to church, at about eleven o'clock o' a foin summer's mornin'.

And then king Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield, with a foin of his spear throughout the body more than a fathom.

The rumor came back to his own district that he was "talkin' foin," and many of his friends there turned out to hear him.

All are gone, an' their foin, splindid houses tumblin' down, an' the people worse off than iver.

Finally a suggestion is made that the word is an alteration of an old word “foin,” meaning a thrust with a pointed weapon.

Word Value for foin
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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