fash

present singular third person fashes · participle present fashing · participle present fashin · participle past fashed · past fashed

1. GeordieNorthern EnglandScotlandtransitiveTo 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

2. GeordieNorthern EnglandScotlandintransitiveTo 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

3. NigeriaslangTo ignore or forget about someone or something.

plural fashes

1. GeordieNorthern EnglandScotlandA worry; trouble; bother.

1. UKderogatoryespeciallyslangA 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

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   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

2. UKderogatoryespeciallyin pluralslangThe 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

   2 more examples

   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

1. slangTo make something fascist.

1. slangFashionable.

   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