fah

Noun

fa (plural fas)

1. A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.
   • And now Mrs. Waters (for we muſt confeſs ſhe was in the ſame Bed) being, I ſuppoſe, awakened from her Sleep, and ſeeing two Men fighting in her Bed-chamber, began to ſcream in the moſt violent Manner, crying out Murder! Robbery! and more frequently Rape! which laſt, ſome, perhaps, may wonder ſhe...1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing the Arrival of an Irish Gentleman, with very extraordinary Adventures which ensued at the Inn”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew]...
   1. Sometimes syllable for both the tonic and the fourth.

Interjection

1. (dated) An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell.
   • Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act...

   Synonyms:

   yuck, bah, ack, agh, argh, barf, bleah, blech, bleck, bleh