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Faugh vs Waugh - What's the difference?

faugh | waugh |

As an interjection faugh

is an exclamation of disgust, especially for a smell, or contempt.

As an adjective waugh is

insipid, tasteless.

As a proper noun Waugh is

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faugh

English

Alternative forms

fough (obsolete)

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.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , 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 !’}}

    waugh

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialect, Scotland and Northern England) Insipid, tasteless.