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Fagin

[ fey-gin ]

noun

  1. (in Dickens' Oliver Twist ) a villainous old man who trains and uses young boys as thieves.
  2. Also fagin. a person who teaches crime to others.


Fagin

  1. A villain in the novel Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens . The unscrupulous, miserly Fagin teaches Oliver Twist and other orphaned boys to pick pockets and steal for him.


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Example Sentences

He looks like Fagin from Oliver Twist—wiry, with long, graying hair and a perfectly pointy beard.

It must come some time or another; and why not in the winter time when you dont want to go out a-walking so much; eh, Fagin?

Fagin nodded in the affirmative, and pointing in the direction of Saffron Hill, inquired whether any one was up yonder to-night.

She was in her room, the woman said; so Fagin crept softly up stairs, and entered it without any previous ceremony.

It would easily have made him beautiful if he had been merely squalid; if he had been a Jew of the Fagin type.

Never told the old parson where they were; never peached upon old Fagin.

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