Noun

(en noun)

(dialectal) A state of worry or excitement.

* 1825 , Ephraim Hardcastle (), The Twenty-Ninth of May: Rare Doings at the Restoration , Volume 1, page 14,

"What, ma'am!" placing her brawny arms akembo, "to fall into these fantigues and fantasies, and swound away, as a body may say, and all about a traitorish scape-grace the like of he!"

* 1834 , Peregrine Reedpen, Our Town; Or, Rough Sketches of Character, Manners, &c , Volume 2, page 341,

Lissy thought for a moment, and then said, in a cheering voice, "Come, come, get up; it's never no use at all to be kneeling there. Don't be in sich a fantigue , don't! Get up, and hear what I has to say."

* 1839 , Caroline Leigh Smith Gascoigne, Temptation, Or, A Wife's Perils , Volume 1, page 160,

“Oh dear! my lady! sure don't put yourself into such a fantigue ; its quite sad for to see you; poor sweet lamb, she'll get better soon, and have no more nasty medicine to take—no more bitter stuff, that she shan't.”

Noun

(en noun)

A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.

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A menial task, especially in the military.

(engineering) A mechanism of material failure involving of crack growth caused by low-stress cyclic loading.

* 2013 , N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials , page 399

Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.