fash

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæʃ/

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  Rhymes: -æʃ

Verb

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

1. (transitive, Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) To worry; to bother, annoy.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:

     "I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out."

2. (intransitive, Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) To trouble oneself; to take pains.
   • 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:

     “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.

Derived terms

• fashery
• fash one's thumb

Translations

To worry; to bother, annoy

Russian: беспоко́ить (ru) (bespokóitʹ), му́чить (ru) (múčitʹ)

Noun

fash (plural fashes)

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

Derived terms

• fashous

See also

• fettle

References

• Whites Latin-English Dictionary: 1899.
• Concise Oxford: 1984.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977
• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “FASH”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• “Fash”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 5 September 2024, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Clipping of fascist.

Noun

fash (plural fash)

1. (slang, derogatory, especially UK) A fascist, a member of the far-right.
   • 1945, Information Bulletin‎, volume 5, numbers 66-131:

     The Butchers Here is an old Munich policeman — Wilhelm Frick with eyes like those of a fash.

   • 2017, Katessa Harkey, The Peace of the Hall: Rules of Engagement for the New Witch Wars, →ISBN, page 90:

     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 [...]

2. (slang, derogatory, in the plural, especially UK) The far-right, especially violent far-right demonstrators, collectively.
   • 1996, Ajay Close, Official and doubtful, UK: Random House:

     Used to go down to London on bash-the-fash awaydays; turn up at National Front marches and give them a toeing.

   • 2012, Dan Todd, One Man's Revolution, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:

     Five of our lads had just watched the riot police go into the Wellington and give the fash a kicking.

   • 2012, Dave Hann, Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

     The women in NP at the time were very good spotters and we had good access to intel, photos etc. on the fash.

Derived terms

• fashy
• go fash, lose cash
• redfash

Translations

(slang, derogatory)

Spanish: facha (es) m or f, facho (es) m

Verb

fash

1. (slang) To make something fascist.

Etymology 3

Clipping of fashionable.

Adjective

fash

1. (slang) Fashionable.
   • 1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12:

     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.

Anagrams

• Fahs, HFAs, fahs

Scots

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faʃ/

Verb

fash (third-person singular simple present fashes, present participle fashin, simple past and past participle fasht)

1. (transitive) To bother, worry, annoy.