fash

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 See also 1.4.3 References 2 Scots 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From early modern French fascher (now fâcher) < Latin fastus (“‘disdain’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /fæʃ/

  Rhymes: -æʃ

[edit] Verb

to fash (third-person singular simple present fashes, present participle fashing or fashin, simple past and past participle fashed)

1. (Scottish, Geordie, Northern England) To worry; to bother, annoy.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 5:

     "I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out."

[edit] Translations

[edit] Noun

fash (plural fashes)

1. (Scottish, Geordie, Northern England) A worry; trouble; bother.

[edit] Derived terms

• fashous

[edit] See also

• fettle

[edit] References

• Whites Latin-English Dictionary: 1899.
• Consise Oxford: 1984.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118
• 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]

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[edit] Scots

[edit] Etymology

From early modern French fascher (now fâcher) < Latin fastus (“‘disdain’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /faʃ/

[edit] Verb

tae fash (third-person singular simple present fashes, present participle fashin, simple past fasht, past participle fasht)

1. (transitive) To bother, worry, annoy.