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FAUGH

Definition: FAUGH

FAUGH

Interjection

1. An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FAUGH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Note: Faugh \Faugh\, interj. [Compare to Foh.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Synonyms within Context: FAUGH

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dislike

Interjection: faugh! foh! ugh!

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: FAUGH

English words defined with "FAUGH": Fugh. (references)
Etymologies containing "FAUGH": Foh. (references)

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Usage Frequency: FAUGH

"FAUGH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FAUGH" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: FAUGH

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "FAUGH": Faugh-a-ballagh.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: FAUGH

Language Translations for "FAUGH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Romanian

  

pfu. (various references)

   

Thai

  

คำอุทานแส"งความรังเกียจ "ูถูกหรือรำคาญ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "FAUGH"

Words ending with "augh": Draugh, Haugh. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FAUGH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-g-h-u"

-2 letters: fag, fug, hag, hug, ugh.

-3 letters: ag, ah, fa, ha, uh.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-g-h-u"
 

+2 letters: fraught.

 

+3 letters: flashgun, fraughts, ghastful.

 

+4 letters: changeful, doughface, flashguns, fraughted.

 

+5 letters: doughfaces, figurehead, fraughting, ghastfully, guitarfish.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FAUGH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 41 55 47 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-    ..-    --.    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01000001 01010101 01000111 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#65 &#85 &#71 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0041 0055 0047 0048

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4035554142

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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