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fashin

fashin is the present participle of fash.

Meaning of fash

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.

Verb (2)

fash

  1. (slang) To make something fascist.

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Questions about fashin

What is fashin the present participle of?
Fashin is the present participle of fash.

Words near fashin in the dictionary

  1. fashes one's thumb
  2. fashied
  3. fashier
  4. fashies
  5. fashiest
  6. fashin
  7. fashing
  8. fashing one's thumb
  9. fashion
  10. fashion contest
  11. fashion contests

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