fauch

English

Noun

fauch (plural fauches)

1. Alternative form of faunch

Verb

fauch (third-person singular simple present fauches, present participle fauching, simple past and past participle fauched)

1. Alternative form of faunch

Anagrams

• chufa

Scots

Etymology

Old Scots faulch, from Old English fealh "fallow land".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑːx/
• IPA^(key): /fjɑːx/

Verb

fauch (third-person singular simple present fauchs, present participle fauchin, simple past faucht, past participle faucht)

1. To plough; to harrow; to prepare fallow ground for planting.
2. (by extension) To scratch, to scrub; to toil, to work hard, to work quickly; to scrounge; to beat.

Noun

fauch (plural fauchs)

1. (obsolete) Part of a field alternately tilled and left fallow.
2. Fallow ground; unploughed ground.
3. Action of ploughing or harrowing previously unploughed ground.
4. (figurative) Slander, denigration; tearing (one) to pieces.

Adjective

fauch (comparative ?, superlative ?)

1. Fallow.
2. Dun; pale red; light (colored).

References

• “fauch”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
• "FAUCH" in J. Jamieson A Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1846) →OCLC