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fagin is a noun meaning "a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens". It carries one recorded sense.
a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens
“Fagin was a fence who trained boys as pickpockets”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fagin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.