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fash¹

  • /fæʃ/

Rhymes with -æʃ

Where it comes from

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

verb fashes · fashing · fashin · 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."
  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.”
  3. Nigeria, slang To ignore or forget about someone or something.

noun fashes

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

fash²

Where it comes from

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

noun 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.
  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.

verb

  1. slang To make something fascist.

fash³

Where it comes from

Clipping of fashionable.

adjective

  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.

Translations

Every language

verb To worry; to bother, annoy

Русскийбеспоко́ить bespokóitʹ, му́чить múčitʹ

noun (slang, derogatory)

Españolfacha, facho
Françaisfacho, faf
DeutschFascho
Italianofascio

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@misc{fash_2026,
  title = {fash},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fash},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}