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FAGIN
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• FAGIN (noun)
The noun FAGIN has 1 sense:
1. a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens
Familiarity information: FAGIN used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
A villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
Fagin was a fence who trained boys as pickpockets
Instance hypernyms:
character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))
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