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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. An exclamation of disgust, contempt, or abhorrence.

Wiktionary

  1. interj. dated An exclamation of disgust, especially for a smell, or contempt.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. interj. An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

Examples

  • “Philistine, if pressed for the reasons of his dislike, would either become inarticulate, ejaculating "faugh" and "pah" like an old-fashioned”

    The Hill of Dreams

  • “To me there is something repugnant in merely striking a man with one's naked fist — faugh! it is sickening!”

    MOON-FACE

  • “But — faugh! — this moral linen of yours smells tainted, just like a winding-sheet.”

    Pillars of Society

  • “Becky, too, knew some ladies here and there — French widows, dubious Italian countesses, whose husbands had treated them ill — faugh — what shall we say, we who have moved among some of the finest company of Vanity Fair, of this refuse and sediment of rascals?”

    Vanity Fair

  • “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

  • “Down Fish Street ... faugh, what a smell came up from pools of filth holding decaying scales and skin and fish guts, from heaps of heads and tails and fins!”

    This Scepter'd Isle

  • “Now you turn and ran like children from night-shadows, faugh!”

    Conan

  • “I hear their feet (does it not sicken a man, that padding woolly tread! faugh!) on the stairs.”

    The Silver Chair

  • “Reading, where the biscuits are made you used to sell, faugh! and be sure to show you Windsor Castle. ”

    Gladys, the Reaper

  • “I was saying, mother, that we are to have a grand wedding, and you must take care not to let anything come out about the shop, faugh! or, indeed, not talk much to the friends I have asked -- Lady Simpson, for instance,”

    Gladys, the Reaper

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