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{ "etymology_text": "From fiend, as a reference to drug fiend or dope fiend.", "forms": [ { "form": "feens", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "feening", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "feened", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "feened", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "feen (third-person singular simple present feens, present participle feening, simple past and past participle feened)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English slang", "English terms with quotations", "English transitive verbs", "English verbs", "Pages with 4 entries", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2003, Tia L. Lincoln, Child of Baltimore, →ISBN, page 103:", "text": "And I feened for him like a crackhead needing a hit.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 44:", "text": "She feened for both cocaine and heroin too, and she'd almost died when a dealer beat her down for getting tight with his supplier and trying to dip on his product.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2014, N.M. Shabazz, HalfBreed, →ISBN, page 157:", "text": "Can't crack the habit. You see, I'm feening, I'm needing some more and you got me grinning like it's money that I'm winning.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2016, Rashi K. Shukla, Methamphetamine: A Love Story, page 117:", "text": "Oh yeah. They're feening. They're feening, is what we called it. They're feening for that drug and they're feening for someone to offer it to them.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2019, Sam Kevin Daniel, Crossfire, →ISBN, page 55:", "text": "“Yeah, I'm feening for some fresh air,” Finn said, using his crutches to get to his feet.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To want something obsessively; to have a strong desire (for)." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive, slang) To want something obsessively; to have a strong desire (for)." ], "tags": [ "slang", "transitive" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-feen.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/En-au-feen.ogg/En-au-feen.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-au-feen.ogg" } ], "synonyms": [ { "tags": [ "verb" ], "word": "fiend" }, { "tags": [ "verb" ], "word": "jones" } ], "word": "feen" }
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