FAGIN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens

Example:

Fagin was a fence who trained boys as pickpockets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

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