faugh

[ faw, pf ]

/ fɔ, pf /

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interjection

(used to express contempt or disgust.)

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Sometimes foh

[faw] /fɔ/ .

Origin of faugh

First recorded in 1535–45

Words nearby faugh

faucet, fauchard, faucial, faucial tonsil, faucitis, faugh, fauld, Faulkner, Faulknerian, Faulkner, William, fault

How to use faugh in a sentence

Gray turned an angry glance upon the brown packet lying on the table, and "Faugh!"
Dope|Sax Rohmer
After this exhibition of foresight on the part of the jeweller, there was no more fight in Algernon beyond a strenuous "Faugh!"
Rhoda Fleming, Complete|George Meredith
I have sworn brother to a leash of drawers, and can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life,'—faugh!
Washington Irving|Charles Dudley Warner
Just as that disaster became imminent, however, the driver remembered the one Irish word he understood,—Faugh-a-ballagh!
Romantic Ireland; volume 2/2|M.F and B. McM. Mansfield

In brief, he is afraid of responsibilities which unfortunately I cannot shoulder in the better world to come—faugh, faugh, faugh!
Atlantis|Gerhart Hauptmann

British Dictionary definitions for faugh

faugh

/ (fɔː) /

interjection

an exclamation of disgust, scorn, etc

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