fash

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From early modern French fascher (now fâcher) < Latin fastus (disdain).

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to fash

Third person singular
fashes

Simple past
fashed

Past participle
fashed

Present participle
fashing or fashin

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."

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[edit] Noun

Singular
fash

Plural
fashes

fash (plural fashes)

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

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[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]

[edit] Scots

[edit] Etymology

From early modern French fascher (now fâcher) < Latin fastus (disdain).

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Verb

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

Infinitive
tae fash

Third person singular
fashes

Simple past
fasht

Past participle
fasht

Present participle
fashin

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