fash

English

Etymology

From early modern French fascher (now fâcher), from Latin fastus (“disdain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fæʃ/

  Rhymes: -æʃ

Verb

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

1. (Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) To worry; to bother, annoy.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 6:

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

Translations

To worry; to bother, annoy

• Russian: беспокоить (ru) (bespokoitʹ), мучить (ru) (mučitʹ)

Noun

fash (plural fashes)

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

Derived terms

• fashous

See also

• fettle

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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Scots

Etymology

From early modern French fascher (now fâcher), from Latin fastus (“disdain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /faʃ/

Verb

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

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