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foin

/fwɛ̃/

interjection/fwɛ̃/

Used to express disdain [with de ‘of someone/something’].

Et d’une voix papelarde / Il demande qu’on ouvre, en diſant Foin du Loup,

Inherited from Middle French foin, from Old French fein, from Latin fēnum, monophthongized variant of Latin faenum (“hay”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-no-, from *dʰeh₁(y)-.