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English
Etymology
Unclear; possibly from or influenced by frantic or fanatic. Related to fantod.
Noun
fantigue (plural fantigues)
- (dialectal) A state of worry or excitement.
1825, Ephraim Hardcastle (William Henry Pyne), The Twenty-Ninth of May: Rare Doings at the Restoration, volume 1, page 14:"What, ma'am!" placing her brawny arms akembo, "to fall into these fantigues and fantasies, and swound away, as a body may say, and all about a traitorish scape-grace the like of he! […] "
1834, Peregrine Reedpen, Our Town; Or, Rough Sketches of Character, Manners, &c, volume 2, page 341:Lissy thought for a moment, and then said, in a cheering voice, "Come, come, get up; it's never no use at all to be kneeling there. Don't be in sich a fantigue, don't! Get up, and hear what I has to say."
1839, Caroline Leigh Smith Gascoigne, Temptation, Or, A Wife's Perils, volume 1, page 160:“Oh dear! my lady! sure don't put yourself into such a fantigue; its quite sad for to see you; poor sweet lamb, she'll get better soon, and have no more nasty medicine to take—no more bitter stuff, that she shan't.”