Crossword clues for feint
feint
- Pugilist's ploy
- Misleading move
- Manny Pacquiao move
- Fencer's maneuver
- Fakeout move
- Word from Old French for "pretended"
- Tricksy maneuver
- Sham attack
- Shaking move
- Ring ruse
- Ring ploy
- Quick maneuver designed to deceive
- Musketeer's mock maneuver
- Head fake, e.g
- Head fake in basketball, e.g
- Gridiron fake
- Fighter's fake
- Fencer's fake-out
- Faked blow
- Épéeist's ruse
- Dummy pass
- Distractive attack
- Deke on the rink
- Deceptive movement
- Deceptive move in fencing
- Deceiving movement
- Boxing fake-out
- Boxer's ruse
- Boxer's deceptive move
- Artful action
- Misleading maneuver
- False move
- Fencing action
- Bluff
- Boxing ploy
- Mock attack
- Any distracting maneuver (as a mock attack)
- Fencing maneuver
- Ruse in the ring
- Maneuver by a Musketeer
- Fencing move
- Boxer's maneuver
- Feature of fencing's noisy collapse
- Pretended blow
- Deceptive motion
- Deceptive manoeuvre
- Threatened strike that doesn't come off
- Artful dodge
- Deceptive move
- Fencing ploy
- Deceptive maneuver
- Deceptive action
- Boxing maneuver
- Clever move
- Diversionary tactic
- Tricky move
- Gridiron move
- Boxer's ploy
- Tactical maneuver
- Halfback's juke
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feint \Feint\, n. [F. feinte, fr. feint. See Feint, a.]
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That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.
--Spectator. A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
Feint \Feint\, v. i. To make a feint, or mock attack.
Feint \Feint\, a. [F. feint, p. p. of feindre to feign. See Feign.] Feigned; counterfeit. [Obs.]
Dressed up into any feint appearance of it.
--Locke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "a false show, assumed appearance;" 1680s as "a pretended blow, movement made to deceive an opponent as to the object of an attack," from French feinte "a feint, sham, fabrication, pretense," abstract noun from Old French feint "false, deceitful; sham, artificial; weak, faint, lazy, indolent" (13c.), originally fem. past participle of feindre "pretend, shirk" (see feign).\n
\nBorrowed c.1300 as adjective ("deceitful," also "enfeebled; lacking in courage;" see feint (v.)), but long obsolete in that sense except as a trade spelling of faint among stationers and paper-makers. Also as a noun in Middle English with senses "false-heartedness" (early 14c.), "bodily weakness" (c.1400).
c.1300, feinten, "to deceive, pretend" (obsolete), also "become feeble or exhausted; to lack spirit or courage," from Middle English feint (adj.) "feigned, false, counterfeit" and directly from Old French feint "false, deceitful; weak, lazy," past participle of feindre "to hesitate, falter; lack courage; feign, pretend, simulate" (see feign). Sense of "make a sham attack, make a pretended blow" is attested by 1833, from the noun (1680s as "a feigned attack"). Related: Feinted; feinting.
Wiktionary
1 (context obsolete English) Feigned; counterfeit. 2 (context fencing boxing war English) (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike n. 1 A movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy 2 That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch. 3 (context fencing boxing war English) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance 4 The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper (C19: Variant of FAINT) v
To make a feint, or mock attack.
WordNet
n. any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
v. deceive by a mock action; "The midfielder feinted to shoot"
Wikipedia
Feint is a French term that entered English via the discipline of swordsmanship and fencing. Feints are maneuvers designed to distract or mislead, done by giving the impression that a certain maneuver will take place, while in fact another, or even none, will. In military tactics and many types of combat, there are two types of feints: feint attacks and feint retreats.
Usage examples of "feint".
Harphaxi mercenary cavalry made a brief feint toward the left of the Hostigi force, but the arquebusiers let fly, their volley felling two score of horses and emptying a few saddles.
The venom of murderous intent could be stalled, outwilled through doubleblind logic and feint.
Each of the adversaries seemed to await some movement on the part of the other, and the Federal commander made heavy feints against both the Confederate right and left, with the view of discovering some weak point, or of inducing Lee to lay himself open to attack.
The feints and slight encounters preceding the battle of Fredericksburg are not of much interest or importance.
He punched at the keyboard, programming a few short grav-drive feints to keep them occupied.
He had devised a complicated plan of attack involving feints and counterfeints and was eager to try out his newfound military skills.
There would be no more feints and jabs, no more combinations and exchanges.
The others backed off to give them room as Ori hacked with all his might, recovered as the blow was deflected and again attacked, feinted and this time his blow was true.
A griffon darted in for the kill, hurtling toward Lockram as he feinted away from the coach.
Yaran and Mazil - feinting at the beast with spears, trying without success to lure it forward.
Again he made a feint, which Kane, distracted by the mutilated mouth, again parried awkwardly.
The main gun moved in its gyro-controlled cradle, a feint humming whine as the mantlet moved, the breech riding up smoothly.
Avall gasped, as he feinted around Rann to knock the ball toward the glass wall.
Again and again, by feint of foot and hand and body he continued to inveigle Sandel into leaping back, ducking, or countering.
He feinted with his left, drew the answering duck and swinging upward hook, then made the half-step backward, delivered the upper cut full to the face and crumpled Sandel over to the mat.