fashious

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The mistress was fashious, for she did not like anybody about her to please themselves, and she had got used to me, as I said before; but the master was as reasonable as she was the contrary He said to me, the day before I left, 'Peggy, I owe you a great debt.

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  1. Troublesome; vexatious. [Scots.] Favour wi' wooing was fashious to seek. The Laird o' Cockpen. It's a fashious affair when you're out on a ride … And you come to a place where three crossroads divide. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 294.

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  • The mistress was fashious, for she did not like anybody about her to please themselves, and she had got used to me, as I said before; but the master was as reasonable as she was the contrary He said to me, the day before I left, 'Peggy, I owe you a great debt. —  Mr. Hogarth's Will
  • Is it about the way of business, or the other job My business with you, Mr. Trumbull, is to request you will find me the means of delivering this letter, from Mr. Maxwell of Summertrees to the Laird of Redgauntlet Humph--fashious job! —  Redgauntlet
  • Keeping the lad'll be a fashious* job, a fashious, kittle business Troublesome I'll have him keepit, though," returned my uncle. —  Kidnapped
  • It may be for your lordship's safety to say this fashious Davie Balfour is your friend and housemate. —  Catriona
  • Keeping the lad'll be a fashious* job, a fashious, kittle business. " —  Kidnapped
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  1. from Old French fascheux, French fâcheux, troublesome, from fascher, trouble, fash, ult. from Latin fastidiosus: see fash and fastidious.
 

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