int. Also 6 fah, 6–7 foh, 7 fough. An exclamation of abhorrence or disgust.

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1542.  Udall, trans. Erasm. Apoph., 320 b. All yt coumpaignie … crying foh at suche a shamefull lye.

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c. 1597.  Nashe, Let., in Grosart, Wks., I., Introd., 64. Had I beene of his [Sir J. Harrington’s] consayle, he shold have sett for the mott, or word before it [H.’s Ajax], Fah!

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1599.  B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., III. ii. Fough, he smells all lamp-oyle.

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a. 1679.  Earl Orrery, Guzman, IV. Faugh, What an unsavory Smell assaults my Nose!

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c. 1680.  Hickeringill, The History of Whiggism, Wks. 1716, I. 108. Foh! no more of them.

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1700.  Farquhar, Constant Couple, I. ii. Faugh, the nauseous fellow! he stinks of poverty already.

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1832.  W. Irving, Alhambra, I. 291. ‘A monkey! faugh!… I hate the nauseous animal.’

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1864.  Thackeray, D. Duval, vii. Faugh! the wicked little beast!

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