fash
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From early modern French fascher (now fâcher), from Latin fastus (“disdain”).
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fash (third-person singular simple present fashes, present participle fashing or fashin, simple past and past participle fashed)
- (transitive, Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) To worry; to bother, annoy.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, “Chapter 6”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
- "I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out."
- (intransitive, Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) To trouble oneself; to take pains.
- 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
- “They,” said he, meaning the collops, “are such as I gave his Royal Highness in this very house; bating the lemon juice, for at that time we were glad to get the meat and never fashed for kitchen. Indeed, there were mair dragoons than lemons in my country in the year forty-six.”
- (Nigeria, slang) To ignore or forget about someone or something.
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To worry; to bother, annoy
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Noun edit
fash (plural fashes)
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- Whites Latin-English Dictionary: 1899.
- Concise Oxford: 1984.
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
- A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
fash (plural fash)
- (slang, derogatory, especially UK) A fascist, a member of the far-right.
- 1945, Information Bulletin[3], volume 5, numbers 66-131:
- The Butchers Here is an old Munich policeman — Wilhelm Frick with eyes like those of a fash.
- 2017, Katessa Harkey, The Peace of the Hall: Rules of Engagement for the New Witch Wars, →ISBN, page 90:
- It is not they, with their comfortable middle class speaking-tour and festival-circuit lives, who will put on the black and go punch a Nazi or bash a fash. No. It will be the vulnerable, overwhelmingly queer, poor youth [...]
- (slang, derogatory, in the plural, especially UK) The far-right, especially violent far-right demonstrators, collectively.
- 1996, Ajay Close, Official and doubtful, UK: Random House:
- Used to go down to London on bash-the-fash awaydays; turn up at National Front marches and give them a toeing.
- 2012, Dan Todd, One Man's Revolution, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
- Five of our lads had just watched the riot police go into the Wellington and give the fash a kicking.
- 2012, Dave Hann, Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
- The women in NP at the time were very good spotters and we had good access to intel, photos etc. on the fash.
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fash
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Scots edit
Etymology edit
From early modern French fascher (now fâcher), from Latin fastus (“disdain”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
fash (third-person singular simple present fashes, present participle fashin, simple past fasht, past participle fasht)
- (transitive) To bother, worry, annoy.
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English fās (“leek root”), from Old English fæs.
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fash
- (figurative) confusion, shame
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 1-2:
- Ye state na dicke daie o'ye londe, na whilke be nar fash nar moile, albiet 'constitutional agitation,'
- The condition, this day, of the country, in which is neither tumult nor disorder, but that constitutional agitation,
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- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 39