go Fantee

English

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Verb

go Fantee (third-person singular simple present goes Fantee, present participle going Fantee, simple past went Fantee, past participle gone Fantee)

1. (archaic) To go native; to adopt the habits etc. of native people.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal's Sais”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2007, page 24:

     He was perpetually ‘going Fantee’ among natives, which, of course, no man with any sense believes in.