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fawnch

fawnch is the alternative form of faunch.

Meaning of faunch

Noun

faunch (plural faunches)

  1. (dated, slang) A desire; a yearning.
    • Byrne was the best thing about *Man in the Iron Mask*, as far as plot and acting. I do confess a faunch for John Malkovitch, and DiCaprio should be allowed to develop his considerable latent acting abilities.1999 January 19, Kathy Routliffe, “Re: Mame”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <36A3FCD4.5097D338@flash.net>

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Forms of fawnch

Noun
pluralfawnches
Verb
third-person singular presentfawnches
present participlefawnching
past participlefawnched
pastfawnched

Questions about fawnch

What is fawnch the alternative form of?
Fawnch is the alternative form of faunch.

Words near fawnch in the dictionary

  1. fawn lilies
  2. fawn lily
  3. fawn over
  4. fawn response
  5. fawn responses
  6. fawnch
  7. fawnched
  8. fawnches
  9. fawnching
  10. fawncoloured
  11. fawned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fawnch (page history and authors); faunch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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