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from the Gaelic for ring fainne
Fawney Co Derry
where the is a ringfort
fawney by Anonymous October 29, 2003
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Pull a Farnsey 

To organise a rondesvouz and cancel post meeting time and typically not even call at all.
Girl A - how was your weekend?
Girl B - Plan was to go out to the reef on the yacht for the day but dick features had to go and pull a farnsey!!!
Pull a Farnsey by Becstar # 1 September 18, 2006
a gilt ring that is passed off as a gold ring. The word is part of British thieves' jargon.
That is not a gold ring. That is just a fawney.
fawney by uttam maharjan October 31, 2010

sew fawnseh 

when something is so fancy, you cannot even english.
the Corvette C4 is SEW FAWNSEH
Slang for a ring. Derived from the feudal ritual in which supplicants and inferiors would kiss a lord's ring when 'fawning' or 'kissing up' to him.
"That's a flash fawney, Jimmy. It would be a shame ef I had tae break the finger af to get it. Now 'and it over like a good chap and ye'll come to no 'arm."
fawney by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003
She is facnsey.
facnsey by mrbernes October 1, 2020