English citations of fashy

  • 1931 July, "ONLOOKER," Melbourne Argus, “Valuing and Selling the Australian Wool Crop”, in The Mid-Pacific Magazine, volume 42, number 1, Alexander Hume Ford, page 35:
    Then I discovered that the wool valuers and experts of the fleece may speak of "Merino 70's, 42 per cent, worth about five-one fashy and full of hard heads." If you are Yorkshire born and bred there is no need to translate "fashy" as "wasty"; but you may not know that "hard heads" are "Bathurst burrs."

Adjective: "(slang) espousing, characteristic of, or relating to fascism" edit

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  • 2017, Missoula's Choice 2017, 26 February 2017, page 16:
    Did Peaky Blinders spark your interest in a fashy-like haircut?
  • 2017, Catherine Rampell, "Racism isn't dying", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 16 August 2017, page A17:
    The most chilling photos, however, show hordes of torch-bearing, fresh-faced, “fashy”-coiffed white men in their teens and 20s.
  • 2017, Baynard Woods, "Are We Great Again Yet?", Salt Lake City Weekly, 17 August 2017, page 12:
    The space was filled with every variety of racist you can imagine, from the Nazi biker to the fashy computer programmer.
  • 2017, Andrew Marantz, "Birth Of A Supremacist", The New Yorker, 16 October 2017, page 26:
    One of its pages is set up to accept donations, in dollars or bitcoins; another is devoted to “fashy memes,” songs and images that extol fascism in an antic, joking-but-not-joking tone.
  • 2017, Samantha Baars, "Judge dismisses two charges against 'Crying Nazi'", C-Ville Weekly, 15 November - 21 November 2017, page 15:
    His supporters, known for their fashy haircuts, white polos and khakis, coordinated new outfits this time.
  • 2017, Brandon Soderberg, "Hi H8erz", Baltimore Beat, 29 November 2017, pages 21 and 24:
    In 2014, Drew Daniel, a Johns Hopkins professor and one half of the duo Matmos, put out "Why Do The Heathen Rage?" as the Soft Pink Truth, offering up queer avant-disco covers of black metal songs in order to celebrate and parody the music and in effect kill fashy black metal bullshit dead.
  • 2019, Colin Benedict, Adam Khatib, & Christopher Hanna, "Stephen Harper and the 'reasonable right'", The Cornell Daily Sun (Cornell University), 7 March 2019, page 10:
    You see, Harper's speech is just a sideshow, a distraction that's simultaneously bizarre and cynical — one so powerful that it deludes young right-wingers into embracing the sinister, supremacist politics of a fashy former Canadian leader while wholly ignoring the life-or-death crises of climate change and water wars.