From early modern French fascher (now fâcher), from Latin fastus (“disdain”).
Meanings
(Geordie, Northern-England, Scotland, transitive) To worry; to bother, annoy.
"I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out." 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:
(Geordie, Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive) To trouble oneself; to take pains.
“They,” said he, meaning the collops, “are such as I gave his Royal Highness in this very house; bating the lemon juice, for at that time we were glad to get the meat and never fashed for kitchen. Indeed, there were mair dragoons than lemons in my country in the year forty-six.” 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
(Nigeria, slang) To ignore or forget about someone or something.
ru беспоко́ить (To worry; to bother, annoy) · ru му́чить (To worry; to bother, annoy)
fash en · NOUN · etymology 2
Etymology
Etymology tree
Latin fascis
Italian fascio
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istabor.
Italian -ista
Italian fascistabor.
English fascistclip.
English fash
Clipping of fascist, borrowed from Italian fascista, from fascio + -ista.
Meanings
(UK, derogatory, especially, slang) A fascist, a member of the far-right.
The Butchers Here is an old Munich policeman — Wilhelm Frick with eyes like those of a fash. 1945, Information Bulletin, volume 5, numbers 66-131:
It is not they, with their comfortable middle class speaking-tour and festival-circuit lives, who will put on the black and go punch a Nazi or bash a fash. No. It will be the vulnerable, overwhelmingly queer, poor youth [...] 2017, Katessa Harkey, The Peace of the Hall: Rules of Engagement for the New Witch Wars, →ISBN, page 90:
(UK, derogatory, especially, in-plural, slang) The far-right, especially violent far-right demonstrators, collectively.
Five of our lads had just watched the riot police go into the Wellington and give the fash a kicking. 2012, Dan Todd, One Man's Revolution, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
Used to go down to London on bash-the-fash awaydays; turn up at National Front marches and give them a toeing. 1996, Ajay Close, Official and doubtful, UK: Random House:
The women in NP at the time were very good spotters and we had good access to intel, photos etc. on the fash. 2012, Dave Hann, Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
es facha ((slang, derogatory)) · fr facho ((slang, derogatory)) · es facho ((slang, derogatory)) · de Fascho ((slang, derogatory)) · it fascio ((slang, derogatory)) · fr faf ((slang, derogatory))
fash en · VERB · etymology 2
Etymology
Etymology tree
Latin fascis
Italian fascio
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istabor.
Italian -ista
Italian fascistabor.
English fascistclip.
English fash
Clipping of fascist, borrowed from Italian fascista, from fascio + -ista.
Meanings
(slang) To make something fascist.
fash en · ADJ · etymology 3
Etymology
Clipping of fashionable.
Meanings
(slang) Fashionable.
Dan Valentine works as a bartender in a pissy and discreet Boston Village gay bar called "Bonaparte's". Clarisse is a chi-chi phruit phly who occasionally puts in time pushing real estate in fash Back Bay and the South End. 1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12: