a. Sc. and north. dial. Forms: 6 fa(s)cheous, (7 fachius), 6–7 faschious, (8 fachious), 9 fash(e)ous, 7– fashious. [ad. OF. fascheux (Fr. fâcheux), f. fascher (fâcher) to FASH.] Causing or giving anxiety or trouble; tiresome, vexatious. rarely of a person.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), I. p. xiv. It were bot ane faschious and vane laboure.
1599. James I., Βασιλικον Δωρον (1603), 125. For where all such light playes, are ordained to free mens heads for a time, from the fashious thoughts on their affaires; it by the contrarie filleth and troubleth mens heads, with as many fashious toyes of the play, as before it was filled with thoughts on his affaires.
a. 1662. R. Baillie, Lett. & Jrnls. (1775), I. 221. The way of proceeding was fashious both to ours and the English commissioners.
1789. Burns, Lett. to Jas. Tennant, 56. For, faith, they’ll aiblins fin’ them fashious.
1811. Scott, Lett., 25 Aug., in Lockhart. Wearing on as easily as this fashious world will permit.
1876. Whitby Gloss., A fashous kind of a body.
