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Murrays New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022.
† Fonkin
Obs.
[f.
F
ON
+ -
KIN
.
] A little fool.
1
1591. Fraunce,
Yvychurch,
I.
i.
If thou couldst, nay wouldst (and who would not, but a fonkin?)
Only but one time taste, and but taste onely the thousandst
Part of those pleasures and ioyes.
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