adj
Meaning 1
Fashionable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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Standard Lemma guide
fash
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/fæʃ/
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rhymes with -æʃ
noun
Meaning 2
A worry; trouble; bother.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Geordie, Northern-England, Scotland
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noun
Meaning 3
A fascist, a member of the far-right.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, derogatory, especially, slang
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noun
Meaning 4
The far-right, especially violent far-right demonstrators, collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, derogatory, especially, in-plural, slang
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verb
Meaning 5
To worry; to bother, annoy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Geordie, Northern-England, Scotland, transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To trouble oneself; to take pains.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Geordie, Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To ignore or forget about someone or something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Nigeria, slang
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verb
Meaning 8
To make something fascist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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History
Etymology
Clipping of fashionable.
From early modern French fascher (now fâcher), from Latin fastus (“disdain”).
Etymology tree Latin fascis Italian fascio Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istabor. Italian -ista Italian fascistabor. English fascistclip. English fash Clipping of fascist, borrowed from Italian fascista, from fascio + -ista.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: facho — (slang, derogatory)
- French: faf — (slang, derogatory)
- Italian: fascio — (slang, derogatory)
- Spanish: facha — (slang, derogatory)
- Spanish: facho — (slang, derogatory)
- Russian: беспоко́ить (bespokóitʹ) — To worry; to bother, annoy
- Russian: му́чить (múčitʹ) — To worry; to bother, annoy