1894 Brewer’s / P / Phœnix Park (Dublin)
A corruption of the Gaelic Fion-uisc (fair water), so called from a spring at one time resorted to as a chalybeate spa.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.