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  • verb Present participle of fash.

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Examples

  • “Dinna you be fashing yerself over a little rough water, lassie.”

    Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011

  • “Dinna you be fashing yerself over a little rough water, lassie.”

    Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011

  • I've been fine since, but when I want bed spins I'll get them the old fashing way- gin!

    Pseudocopulation and proprioception. Ann Althouse 2008

  • All the time, while Charles Reade had been fashing himself to provide every sort of rural joy for his goat, the ungrateful beast had been longing for the naphtha lights of the circus, for lively conversation and the applause of the crowd.

    The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908

  • Enthusiasm roared and whirred from the concentrating mill where wheels were turning and bands were slipping; where a tub, ore-laden, was jerking and clanking through the hoister shaft; where men on an upper platform were shovelling the dump from the tub into great crusher rolls; where the rolls were grinding and pounding, and the water was fashing and gurgling down the jigs.

    Sally of Missouri 1905

  • --- But it winna gang out of a grey head like mine, that to gang to seek for evil that's no fashing wi 'you, is clean against law and Scripture.' '

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • That's what a man is made for, without fashing himself with letters and Latin and manners, no better than a monk; but my father would always have it so! '

    Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • I never did think, and I don't think now, there ever was any use in a man fashing himself as you fash yourself.

    Harry Heathcote of Gangoil Anthony Trollope 1848

  • ` ` I can die as I have lived, without fashing ony o them.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • "Ye see now that I was right, Mrs. Dods, and that there was nae earthly use in your fashing yoursell wi 'this lang journey -- The lad had just ta'en the bent rather than face Sir Bingo; and troth, I think him the wiser of the twa for sae doing -- There ye hae print for it."

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

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