var. of FAUGH. Hence Fohing vbl. sb., the action of crying Foh!
1685. Crowne, Sir C. Nice, IV. 39. Sur. Foh! what’s this fohing at?
1712. Arbuthnot, John Bull, III. viii. Foh, say they, to see a handsome, brisk, genteel, young fellow, so much governed by a doating old woman!
1840. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, xxiii. ‘Foh!’ said Mr. Chester. ‘The very atmosphere that centaur has breathed, seems tainted with the cart and ladder.’
