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Fash   Listen
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Fash  v. t.  (past & past part. fashed; pres. part. fashing)  To vex; to tease; to trouble. (Scot.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fash" Quotes from Famous Books



... be sure," said Donald. "It's myself has seen to all that. Don't you fash yourself, laird. Things'll be in time. All me and my wife wants is that the bit ...
— Betty Vivian - A Story of Haddo Court School • L. T. Meade

... education, but with the education she could do nearly all—and I him believe. Tenez, I him have seen pose Daniel Webster there upon this plank—Daniel Webster was the name of the frog—and to him sing, 'Some flies, Daniel, some flies!'—in a fash of the eye Daniel had bounded and seized a fly here upon the counter, then jumped anew at the earth, where he rested truly to himself scratch the head with his behind-foot, as if he no had not the least idea of his superiority. Never you not have seen frog as modest, as ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... M'Allister came into the room, and, noticing John's vicious frown and my troubled look, asked what was wrong. We told him the news, but he only laughed, and, turning to John, exclaimed, "Heh, John, don't fash yourself about the tobacco, mon; we'll find you a substitute. There's more ...
— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks

... "Ye needna fash," said David carelessly, "I'm gawn that way mysel', an' if the puir lassie has nae objection I'll be ...
— The Garret and the Garden • R.M. Ballantyne

... "Ev'ybody is fash'nable. How can you help it? Some people wea' old fashions; that's all.... A cassock's an old fashion. There's nothing so ...
— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells

... Boffin, 'is a highflyer at Fashion. And her make is such, that she does it credit. As to myself I ain't yet as Fash'nable as I may come to be. Henerietty, old lady, this is the gentleman that's a going to decline and ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens

... they oft are set On a path the Fiend must pave them; Evermore, with fash and fret, In God's sight they ...
— A Celtic Psaltery • Alfred Perceval Graves

... fash yoursel',' I heard him say once to Mr. Falkland, 'aboot these young deevils like the Marstons? They're as good's ready money in auld Nick's purse. It's bred and born and welded in them. Ye'll just have the burrs and seeds amang the wool if ye keep losing ...
— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

... call him "noble son," He ain't no ladies' pet, But, let a row start anyhow, They'll send for him, you bet! He "do'n't cut any ice" at all In Fash'n's social plan,— He gits the job ter face a mob, The Reg'lar Army man; The millin', drilling Made fer ...
— Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse • Joseph C. Lincoln

... "Dinna fash, lassie. Mind your lady and the poor bairns like a godly handmaiden, and I'll buy the ring when the sawmon fishing's over, and we'll just be married ere I start for ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • Charles Kingsley

... back before you can be going back, son," I told him. "If you fash and fret it will take you but so much the longer ...
— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder

... soothingly, "you must not worry over it. There is more than one way to circumvent Mr. Pitcairn; and a few jurymen, more or less, are nothing to fash one's soul about one way or another. ...
— Nancy Stair - A Novel • Elinor Macartney Lane

... a quiet child, And gave my teachers little fash, But as I grew I grew more wild, And hasty as the ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various

... i' the kitchen? Ay, weel, they're a fell spoilt crew, T'nowhead's litlins, an' no that aisy to manage. Th' ither lasses Lisbeth's ha'en had a michty trouble wi' them. When they war i' the middle o' their reddin up the bairns wid come tumlin' about the floor, but, sal, I assure ye, Bell didna fash lang wi' them. ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner

... Better go ye're ways for a guid sharp trot, to bring the blood back to your veins. Ye'll be in time for the afternoon's post; but unless ye're expecting news of your own, ye needna fash for the rest. Mr Elgood's ...
— Big Game - A Story for Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... do; try to make me believe you didn't send for them! sewing your lies with white bread, indeed! Don't fash yourself; we won't trouble your Parisians—before they set their feet in this house, we shall have shaken the dust of it off ours. Max and I will be gone, never to return. As for your will, I'll tear it in quarters under your nose, and to your very beard—do ...
— The Celibates - Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac



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