▪ I. faugh, int.
(fɔː)
Also 6 fah, 6–7 foh, 7 fough.
An exclamation of abhorrence or disgust.
| 1542 Udall tr. Erasm. Apoph. 320 b, All y⊇ coumpaignie..crying foh at suche a shamefull lye. c 1597 Nashe Let. in Grosart Wks. I. Introd. 64 Had I beene of his [Sir J. Harrington's] consayle, he shold have sett for the mott, or word before it [H.'s Ajax], Fah! 1599 B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iii. ii, Fough, he smells all lamp-oyle. a 1679 Ld. Orrery Guzman iv, Faugh, What an unsavory Smell assaults my Nose! c 1680 Hickeringill Hist. Whiggism, Wks. 1716 I. 108 Foh! no more of them. 1700 Farquhar Constant Couple i. ii, Faugh, the nauseous fellow! he stinks of poverty already. 1832 W. Irving Alhambra I. 291 ‘A monkey! faugh!..I hate the nauseous animal’. 1864 Thackeray D. Duval vii, Faugh! the wicked little beast! |
▪ II. faugh
var. of fauch.