dial. Also 7 feak. [Cf. Du. feeks of same meaning, referred by native etymologists to the vb. vegen (see FEAGUE v.). Also cf. ME. VECKE.] (See quot. 1781.)
1664. Bold, Poems, 134.
| Three female idle feaks who long’d for pig’s head | |
| (For near this place, there’s many a hundr’d ligs dead). |
1781. Hutton, Tour to Caves, Gloss., Feague, a dirty, sluttish, idle person.
1869. in Peacock, Lonsdale Gloss., 30.
