Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An exclamation of disgust, contempt, or abhorrence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • interjection An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • interjection dated An exclamation of disgust, especially for a smell, or contempt.

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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 Arthur Machen 1905

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

    MOON-FACE 2010

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

    Pillars of Society 2008

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

    Pillars of Society 2008

  • 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 2006

  • 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 2004

  • 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 Lackey, Mercedes 2004

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

    Conan Howard, Robert E. & De Camp, L. Sprague & Carter, Lin 1966

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

    The Silver Chair Lewis, C. S. 1953

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

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

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