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  • "Faugh," to say nothing of other picturesque expressions of entire disgust -- from all of which one would judge almost without effort that

    At Good Old Siwash George Fitch 1896

  • "Faugh --" cried Mr. Landale, contemptuously, "smuggling French brandy for our English drunkards and traitorous intelligence for our French enemies!"

    The Light of Scarthey Egerton Castle 1889

  • "Faugh," said Bruce, on his return to Camford, "that fellow Hazlet isn't worth making an experiment upon -- _in corpore vili_ truly; but the creature is so wicked at heart, that even his cherished traditions crumble at a touch.

    Julian Home 1867

  • Faugh ... time for food, a movie, and some good ol 'super-heroic ass-kicking.

    More Songs About Food Vats archmage 2007

  • Nevertheless he took a bit of the bread and dipped it in the pomegranate-conserve and made shift to eat it, but he found it too little sweetened, for he was cloyed and surfeited, so he said, “Faugh; what be this wild-beast 470 stuff?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Faugh!’ said Peg, grubbing, in the discharge of her domestic functions, among a scanty heap of ashes in the rusty grate.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • Faugh! come, now another! keep on mixing with all your might.

    Peace 2000

  • Nevertheless he took a bit of the bread and dipped it in the pomegranate conserve and made shift to eat it, but he found it too little sweetened, for he was cloyed and surfeited, so he said, "Faugh, what be this wild-beast stuff?"

    Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

  • This last cry is not unlike the Irish "Faugh-a-Ballagh" in signification.

    Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various

  • With what a "Faugh!" the great gerund-grinder would thump his cane upon the floor, and go lumbering away!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

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