Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.
Also 6–7 fasch(e, fashe (? 6 fach). [a. OFr. fascher (Fr. fâcher).]
1. trans. To afflict, annoy, trouble, vex. Also, to give trouble to, bother, weary. Also refl. and To fash one’s beard, head, thumb: to take trouble.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, V. (1822), 393. The Veanis war sa faschit be continuall ambicioun and desire of honouris.
1556. J. Heywood, Spider & F., lvii. 128.
| Behold: the batilments in euerie loope: | |
| How thordinance lieth: flies fer and nere to fach. | |
| Behold: how euerie peece: that lith there in groope: | |
| Hath a spider gonner: with redy fired mach. |
1637. Rutherford, Lett., cxlv. (1863), I. 342. Fash Christ (if I may speak so) and importune Him.
1723. Wodrow Corr. (1843), III. 45. Be not fashed if you miss a letter.
1725. Ramsay, Gent. Sheph., III. ii.
| S. Will. Howe’er I get them, never fash your Beard, | |
| Nor come I to read Fortunes for Reward. |
1823. Galt, Entail, III. ii. 21. Ne’er fash your head wi’ your father’s dodrums.
1824. Scott, Redgauntlet, Let. xi. ‘Never fash yoursel’ wi’ me … but look to yoursel’.
1861. Ramsay, Remin., Ser. II. 125. ‘I say, Mr. Broon, what gars your horse’s tail wag that way?’ ‘Oo, juist what gars your tongue wag; it’s fashed wi’ a wakeness.’
1871. C. Gibbon, For Lack of Gold, ii. As soon as Balquherrie got his turn served, away he went and never fashed his thumb about his debt, that he knew would beggar honest folk.
1874. Helps, Soc. Press., iv. (1875), 60. Sir Arthur. People fash themselves about such dim and distant dangers as the suppy of coal failing us; but I see now that this rapid increase of great towns is a much more pressing cause for apprehension.
1876. Whitby Gloss., s.v. ‘Deeant fash your beard anent it.’
2. intr. for refl. To weary, be annoyed; to bother or trouble oneself; to take trouble. Const. of.
1585. James I., Ess. Poesie (Arb.), 74.
| Then woundred I to see them seik a wyle | |
| Sa willinglie the precious tyme to tyne: | |
| And how thay did them selfs far so begyle, | |
| To fashe of tyme, quhilk of itself is fyne. |
1597. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 597. Of our fellowschip ȝou fasche. Ibid., 1435. For feir folk maun not fash.
1721. J. Kelly, Collect. Scot. Proverbs 390. You soon fash of a good Office. Spoken to Boys who are soon weary of what we bid them do.
1806. Tannahill, Poems, Epistle to J. B-ch-n-n (1846), 70.
| Else, wha the deil wad fash to scribble, | |
| Expecting scorn for a’ his trouble? |
1821. Galt, Ann. Parish Dalmailing, 229. The dinner was a little longer of being on the table than usual, at which he began to fash.
1886. Stevenson, Kidnapped, xviii. 178. ‘Man, they didnae stop to fash with me!’
Hence Fashed, ppl. a. Troubled, worried.
1597. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 295.
| The mair I wrestlit with the wynd, | |
| The faschter still myself I fynd. |
