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, orcontempt .
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Examples
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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
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To me there is something repugnant in merely striking a man with one's naked fist — faugh! it is sickening!
MOON-FACE 2010
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But — faugh! — this moral linen of yours smells tainted, just like a winding-sheet.
Pillars of Society 2008
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But — faugh! — this moral linen of yours smells tainted, just like a winding-sheet.
Pillars of Society 2008
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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
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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
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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
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Now you turn and ran like children from night-shadows, faugh!
Conan Howard, Robert E. & De Camp, L. Sprague & Carter, Lin 1966
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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
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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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