fash
/fæʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.30 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The far-right, especially violent far-right demonstrators, collectively.
British usage; Derogatory; Slang
Example Sentences
- ""I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out.""
- "“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.”"
- "The Butchers Here is an old Munich policeman — Wilhelm Frick with eyes like those of a fash."
- "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 [...]"
- "Used to go down to London on bash-the-fash awaydays; turn up at National Front marches and give them a toeing."
- "Five of our lads had just watched the riot police go into the Wellington and give the fash a kicking."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, fastus