"fefnicute" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fefnicutes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fefnicute (plural fefnicutes)
  1. (Lancashire) A two-faced, sneaky person. Synonyms: faffnecute, feffnecute
    Sense id: en-fefnicute-en-noun-mjkABC1k Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Lancashire English

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Later that evening she rang me, calling the locum some choice names, including fefnicute. The fefnicute had refused to put a filling in her painful tooth, because, he said, she was under the weather.\nShe said that the word meant a miserable git, a mean, sneaking fellow. It was a Lancashire word she remembered from childhood.",
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