Meaning of faugh | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.”

“Faugh! how it stinks! It doth not smell⟳ like⟳ a Christian.”

“The very scent of the carrion—faugh—reached my nostrils at the distance where we stood.”

““Civilized ways, forsooth,” scoffed Tarzan. “Jungle standards do not countenance wanton atrocities. There we kill⟳ for food and for self-preservation, or in the winning of mates and the protection of the young. Always, you see⟳, in accordance with the dictates of some great natural law. But here! Faugh, your civilized man is more brutal than the brutes.[…]””

“The orthodox religious world says faugh! to sex. Whereupon we thank⟳ [Sigmund] Freud for giving them tit for tat.”

“[…] The thought was a bitter one, and I don't suppose⟳ I have⟳ ever come⟳ closer to saying ‘Faugh!’”

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