Associations to the word «Fagin»

Dictionary definition

FAGIN, noun. A villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens; "Fagin was a fence who trained boys as pickpockets".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky