Interjection

(en interjection)

(dated) An exclamation of disgust, especially for a smell, or contempt.

* 1900' Mary Harriott Norris (editor), '''1823 , American Book Company, page 24:

The very scent of the carrion—faugh —reached my nostrils at the distance where we stood.

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, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VII , passage=It was a lovely afternoon, replete with blue sky, beaming sun, buzzing insects and what not, an afternoon that seemed to call to one to be out in the open with God's air playing on one's face and something cool in a glass at one's side, and here was I, just to oblige Bobbie Wickham, tooling along a corridor indoors on my way to search a comparative stranger's bedroom, this involving crawling on floors and routing under beds and probably getting covered with dust and fluff. The thought was a bitter one, and I don't suppose I have ever come closer to saying ‘Faugh !’}}

Interjection

(en interjection)

An expression of disgust, contempt, disdain, or dismissal.

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, year=1892 , author=Thomas Carlyle , title=The Last Words of Thomas Carlyle , publisher=Appleton & Co. , chapter=Excursion (Futile Enough) to Paris , page=228 , passage=Pfaugh ! — the history of the day was done; but up-stairs, in my naked, noisy room, began a history of the night, which was much more frightful to me.}}

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, year=1976 , author=Robert Herrick , title=Waste , publisher=Ayer Publishing , page=55 , passage="They live in New York, and he had the effrontery to give me a dinner and ask all his collaborators to it, fat, paunchy men who smelled of money. Pfaugh !"}}

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, year=2007 , author=Michael Flynn , title=Eifelheim , publisher=Macmillan , page=167 , passage="But not so many as of us, eh? Why do you suppose that is? Because they bob up and down while they pray? Because every Friday they air their bedding out? Pfaugh ."}}