fauch
English
Verb
fauch (third-person singular simple present fauches, present participle fauching, simple past and past participle fauched)
- Alternative form of faunch
Anagrams
Scots
Etymology
Old Scots faulch, from Old English fealh "fallow land".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɑːx/
- IPA(key): /fjɑːx/
Verb
fauch (third-person singular simple present fauchs, present participle fauchin, simple past faucht, past participle faucht)
Noun
fauch (plural fauchs)
- (obsolete) Part of a field alternately tilled and left fallow.
- Fallow ground; unploughed ground.
- Action of ploughing or harrowing previously unploughed ground.
- (figurative) Slander, denigration; tearing (one) to pieces.
References
- “fauch” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- "FAUCH" in J. Jamieson A Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1846) →OCLC
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