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Etymology
From Middle English gnaȝen (“to gnaw”), from Old English gnagan, from Proto-West Germanic *gnagan. Compare also Middle English gnaffed.
Pronunciation
Verb
gnafeen
- (figurative) chopping
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Gnafeen a beanes.- Chopping the sod on beans.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 42