faix

English

Interjection

faix

(Ireland) Eye dialect spelling of fecks.

French

Etymology

From Old French fais, from Latin fascis (“bundle, burden”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰasko (“bundle, band”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɛ/
Homophones: fais, fait

Noun

faix m (plural faix)

(literary or dated) burden, heavy load

Derived terms

Related terms

fasce

Further reading

“faix” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Iu Mien

Adjective

faix

small

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