faugh
Americaninterjection
interjection
Etymology
Origin of faugh
First recorded in 1535–45
Example Sentences
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No slang, he insisted, was pah, which meant "bah, faugh, fudge."
From Time Magazine Archive
A serving man to appear fuddled in the presence of Lady Etheridge! faugh!
From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat
The rake inured to card-room traps, Yet making fearful faces Because his foes, perfidious chaps, Have always all the aces— "Ruined! the old place mortgaged! faugh!"
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-03 by Sir Owen Seaman
But some suppose this to have been a title of aversion, like our English "faugh" against any thing which stinks.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
Paul Schlieben had a feeling as if the paper were burning his fingers--common paper, but pink and smelling of cheap perfumed soap--an anonymous letter, faugh!
From The Son of His Mother by Clara Viebig
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