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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
Hello, writers and frenz. The word is “Faugh!” As expletives go, it’s sprinkled around 18th and 19th century British lit, so probably in conversation too, if disappearing in the 20th, perhaps due to what it sounds and maybe looks like it means, which some sources say it doesn’t: Irish regiments in various armies reportedly used and still use Gaelic War cries such as ” Faugh a Ballagh ” (“Clear the way!”) which The Adventurer’s Glossary claims was first known to be heard in the Napoleonic Wars, at the 1811 battle of Barrosa where “a single British division defeated two French divisions and captured a regimental eagle. Later, the Royal Irish Fusiliers, an Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army, was nicknamed the Faughs .” Evidently , the phrase survives as well in Irish road bowling, being spelt fág a’ bealach!, a shout “to warn spectators on the road in front of the thrower.” Merriam-Webster reports the use of just the word as dating to 1542 and offers us a whole bunch more words from that year — click for data about them ✅ — and page 36 (pdf page 56) of A Glossary of Words and Phrases of Cumberland by William Dickinson, FLS, WhiteHaven, London, 1859, confirms that it’s “N.E. an exclamation of contemptuous dissent.” CollinsDictionary adds “scorn”, informing us that in American English (fɔː conventionalized pronun.; actually, an expulsion of air, often with vibration of the lips) and this audio does indeed sound as if it means just what we all probably thought in the first place. This OED page offers 5 entries —mostly to do with left-fallow farmland, possibly involving a concept of being clear rather than plowed ground— if also verifying that it’s an interjection of disgust… Alas I’m not a subscriber, so I get nothing more from there, only copypasta via google: https://www.oed.com › dictionary › faugh_adj The earliest known use of the adjective faugh is in the early 1500s. OED’s earliest evidence for faugh is from before 1522, in a translation by Gavin … but maybe WO commenters with access can bring more. […]
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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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