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Faunch vs Haunch - What's the difference?

faunch | haunch |

As nouns the difference between faunch and haunch

is that faunch is (dated|fandom slang) a desire; a yearning while haunch is (anatomy) the area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters.

As a verb faunch

is (us|horses) to bite the bit, especially when restless; to champ.

faunch

English

Alternative forms

* fauch * fawnch

Noun

(es)
  • (dated, fandom slang) A desire; a yearning.
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1999 , monthday = January 19 , author = Kathy Routliffe , email = , title = Re: Mame , id = 36A3FCD4.5097D338@flash.net , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/2qWzQ47EI5c/jL-MU_sFOigJ }}
    Byrne was the best thing about *Man in the Iron Mask*, as far as plot and acting. I do confess a faunch for John Malkovitch, and DiCaprio should be allowed to develop his considerable latent acting abilities.
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 2001 , monthday = September 05 , author = Joel Rosenberg , email = , title = Re: Waaaaaaaaaah I wanna go to a Con! , id = huwl7.256335$Jg.32070285@typhoon.kc.rr.com , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/gN1ySyK2iVg/gD-AQFiQEF0J }}
    Me, I'd caution against a Worldcon as one's first convention for somebody who has such a faunch -- not to the point of avoiding it, if one were handy -- as while there's a lot that's fun at a Worldcon, it tends to be on the largish side, it's fairly easy to get lostish, and in most times and places (at least in the US) there's likely to be a good convention closer in time and space than the next Worldcon.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (US, horses) To bite the bit, especially when restless; to champ.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1954 , year_published = 2008 , first = Mari , last = Sandoz , authorlink = Mari Sandoz , title = The Buffalo Hunters , page = 6 , isbn = 9780803218802 , passage = Instead of the fine faunching black mare he usually rode he was on a light grey today, a little slower if it came to a run from the Indians or a buffalo stampede, but much less conspicuous against the snow. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1986 , first = Jerry , last = Bumpus , authorlink = , title = Heroes and Villains , section = The Outdoorsman , page = 59 , isbn = 9780914590934 , passage = Ecstatic, they faunched and gamboled and I could hardly get them in the traces. }}
  • (US, chiefly, Midland American English, and, Western American English) To complain; to rant; to rave.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1931 , year_published = 1997 , first = Anne , last = Ellis , authorlink = , title = Plain Anne Ellis , page = 151 , isbn = 9780803267367 , passage = But on the evening before election, a staunch Democrat who had been on one of our telephone jobs came to my door — just faunching and spluttering. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1943 , year_published = 1995 , first = John B. , last = Sanford , authorlink = John Sanford (author) , title = The People from Heaven , page = 5 , isbn = 9780252064913 , passage = You won't make nothing the day I die. I'll go out fighting and faunching . }}
  • *{{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1998 , monthday = September 09 , author = Charley L. Walker, Jr. , email = , title = Don't be misled... , id = 6t6vjo$gj8$1@juliana.sprynet.com , group = austin.general , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/austin.general/tYC5gjzVRFs/Zfeob6IKYbkJ }}
    Right Wingers can rant, stomp, faunch , condemn and mislead all day long and pack the laws with well archestrated(sic) bigotry and bias from here til doomsday.
  • (US, chiefly, Midland American English, and, Western American English) To worry; to be eager; to show impatience.
  • *{{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1998 , monthday = June 02 , author = Wade Hampton Miller , email = , title = There's a nice archtop for sale at Downtown Disney , id = 1998060219431000.PAA29427@ladder01.news.aol.com , group = rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic/rch8j8C2VdE/7ZpXQ0qd5scJ }}
    Rather than have me fidget and faunch while waiting in line (I'd neglected to bring a book) my wife sent me off to the music store with her blessing, with the promise to send our daughter Celia to fetch me when we finally got our table an hour later.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2003 , first = Harold , last = Keith , authorlink = , title = Forty-Seven Straight , page = 166 , isbn = 9780806135694 , passage = Licking his fingers, Pat buckled on his white helmet and went to work. Wilkinson's relieving elevens were always faunching to go into action anyhow. }}
  • (dated, fandom slang) To desire; to yearn; to covet.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1959 , first = Richard "Dick" Harris , last = Eney , title = Fancyclopedia II , url = http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/foxtrot.html , section = Joe Fann/Jophan , passage = He is a young fellow, not long out of adolescence, who faunches to set the world on fire but isn't sure how to go about it. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1996 , date = January , first = Eric , last = Lindsay , magazine = Gegenschein , url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Gegenschein/geg73.htm , issue = 73 , section = Winter Convention Trip in the USA, June 1994 , passage = I've long faunched for these, and they turned out to be better constructed than I expected, and even included a padded carry bag. }}
  • *{{quote-usenet
    • , year = 2003 , monthday = May 09 , author = David Dyer-Bennet , email = , title = Re: Should I upgrade my camera? , id = m2of2bigf2.fsf@gw.dd-b.net , group = rec.photo.digital , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.photo.digital/GsmXnaFTUJA/saOfRjZxMYMJ }}
    One thing you will learn *very* quickly is that, while you can do a very broad range of photography indeed with cheap equipment, there is *always* some very expensive toy you faunch over that will let you do something a little bit better.

    Derived terms

    * faunch and rear * faunch at the bit

    References

    * faunch in the Dictionary of American Regional English

    haunch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * * (architechture)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (anatomy) The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters.
  • The loin and leg of a quadruped, especially when used as food.
  • (architecture) A squat vertical support structure.

    • Quotations

    {{timeline, 1700s=1735, 1800s=18?? 1855 1894, 1900s=1916 1918}} * *: But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and perfectly neat and clean. * 18?? — *: On the rough-hewn oaken table the venison haunch was shared. * 1855 — , III *: And the rabbit from his path-way
    Leaped aside, and at a distance
    Sat erect upon his haunches . * 1894 — *: Now these are the Laws of the Jungle,
    and many and mighty are they;
    But the head and the hoof of the Law
    and the haunch and the hump is -- Obey! * 1916 — *: While Heracles, - the thews and cordage of his thighs
    Straitened and strained beyond the utmost stretch
    From quivering heel to haunch like sweating hawsers. * c.1918 — *: The fog comes on little cat feet.
    It sits looking over harbor and city
    on silent haunches and then moves on.