renig

See also: re-nig

English

Verb

renig (third-person singular simple present renigs, present participle renigging, simple past and past participle renigged)

1. (US, colloquial, dated) To renege.
   • 1897, Munsey's Magazine (volume 16, page 559)

     My partner held the winning trick, and when the last card was on the board the score stood four to four. […] [T]he next gentleman will kindly follow suit — there is no renigging in this game — and the gentleman on my right will do the same.

   • 1900, William Hardcastle Browne, Odd Derivations of Words, Phrases, Slang, Synonyms and Proverbs

     […] cutting, shuffling, playing, revoking, discarding, renigging.

   • 1916, Phi Alpha Gamma Quarterly (volume 15, issue 2, page 41)

     […] but so far the girls have at the fatal moment renigged.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• Grein, Negri, Niger, Reign, niger, nigre, reign, ringe