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fash

/fæʃ/

fash verb: to worry; to bother, annoy.

Verb (1)

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

  1. (Geordie, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To worry; to bother, annoy.
    • "I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out."1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC
  2. (Geordie, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To trouble oneself; to take pains.
    • “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.”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
  3. (Nigeria, slang) To ignore or forget about someone or something.

Noun (1)

fash (plural fashes)

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

Noun (2)

fash (plural fash)

  1. (UK, derogatory, especially, slang) A fascist, a member of the far-right.
    • The Butchers Here is an old Munich policeman — Wilhelm Frick with eyes like those of a fash.1945, Information Bulletin, volume 5, numbers 66-131
    • 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 [...]2017, Katessa Harkey, The Peace of the Hall: Rules of Engagement for the New Witch Wars, →ISBN, page 90
  2. (UK, derogatory, especially, in plural, slang) The far-right, especially violent far-right demonstrators, collectively.
    • Used to go down to London on bash-the-fash awaydays; turn up at National Front marches and give them a toeing.1996, Ajay Close, Official and doubtful, UK: Random House
    • Five of our lads had just watched the riot police go into the Wellington and give the fash a kicking.2012, Dan Todd, One Man's Revolution, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN

Verb (2)

fash

  1. (slang) To make something fascist.

Adjective

fash

  1. (slang) Fashionable.
    • Dan Valentine works as a bartender in a pissy and discreet Boston Village gay bar called "Bonaparte's". Clarisse is a chi-chi phruit phly who occasionally puts in time pushing real estate in fash Back Bay and the South End.1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12

Forms of fash

Verb
third-person singular presentfashes
present participlefashing
present participlefashin
past participlefashed
pastfashed
Noun
pluralfashes
pluralfash

Origin of fash

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

Clipping of fascist, borrowed from Italian fascista, from fascio + -ista.

Clipping of fashionable.

Words formed from fash

Words that rhyme with fash

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Questions about fash

What does fash mean?
Fash means to worry; to bother, annoy.
What part of speech is fash?
Fash can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce fash?
Fash is pronounced /fæʃ/.
What is the past tense of fash?
The past tense of fash is fashed.

Words near fash in the dictionary

  1. faselled
  2. faselling
  3. fasels
  4. fases
  5. Fasgan'dufaru
  6. fash
  7. fash one's thumb
  8. Fasham
  9. Fashams
  10. fashed
  11. fashed one's thumb

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