Sc. and north. Also 6 fascherie, -ery, (faschrie, fashrie), 7–9 fasherie. [ad. OF. fascherie (Fr. fâcherie), f. fascher (fâcher to FASH.] Annoyance, trouble, vexation, worry; also something that causes worry, rare in pl.
1553. Q. Kennedy, Compend. Tractive. We geve nocht occasioun of fascherie to the Redare.
16[?]. in Poet. Misc. (1845), 33.
| Longe since, forsooth, my muse begun to tire, | |
| Through daily faschery of my owne affaires, | |
| Which quencht in me that heavenly furious fire, | |
| In place whereof came sad and thornie cares. |
a. 1605. Montgomerie, Sonnet, To M. Dauid Drummond, v. 3.
| The hevinly furie that inspyrd my spreit, | |
| Quhen sacred beughis war wont my brouis to bind, | |
| With frostis of fashrie frozen is that heet; | |
| My garland grene is withrit with the wind. |
1621. Molle, Camerar. Liv. Libr., III. vi. 167. The leauing of one vocation to follow another, will not serue to fence the mind from the fassheries and troubles that molest it.
1725. Wodrow Corr. (1843), III. 173. Nobody gives you so much fashery.
1820. Scott, Monast., iv. You kirkfolk make sic a fasherie.
1876. Whitby Gloss., Fashery, all kinds of ‘botheration.’
1882. Stevenson, Men & Bks., 389. Not without some cross and fashery of mind and body.
