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- noun Plural form of
fash . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fash .
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Examples
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"They've garble warble fashes!" cried Slartibartfast, still waving at them.
Life, the Universe, and Everything Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 1982
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"I don't want to preach to any body; and you know how much it fashes me to contend with you."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Various
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It's as plain as a pike-staff that something is troubling her, and maybe it will be some of your love nonsense? for it's mainly that as fashes the lasses.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various
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"Don't say FASHES, say distresses, or annoys, not _fashes_, for heaven's sake, my dear Lucy."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Various
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Cannot he sing his sang, and take his drink, and draw his salary, like Collector Snail, honest man, that never fashes onybody?
Chapter IX 1917
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It fashes me to ha 'such an one come cadging siller frae me; I'd think wrong to encourage him by gi'e'n it the him.
Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910
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When he did sae, I said, 'Well, deacon, we a' o 'us hae our ain fashes.
Scottish sketches Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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He that has just enough can soundly sleep; the owercome only fashes folk to keep.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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Nae wonder ye're auld like, ilka thing fashes you.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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But I am aften on the hill; and they are like wasps --- they stang only them that fashes them; sae, for my part, I make a point not to see them, unless I were ordered out on the preceese errand by MacCallummore or
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