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🧑‍✈️ A fascist (slang) 😣 A bother 🤔 To worry
to fash

to fash

9.9
To bother or worry someone by causing extra trouble
  • verb
  • UK
translation icon : fastidiar
  • The constant delays on the train were starting to fash him, making him anxious about being late.

Examples

  • It really fashed us when we discovered that the concert tickets were sold out.

  • We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed... it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

    A Clockwork Orange (1971)

  • She didn't mean to fash her friend with the repeated questions, but she was very worried about the outcome.

Synonyms

to faze
vsto fash
23 7.1

Make someone feel upset or lose confidence

causes practical inconvenience and worry rather than loss of composure
to miff
vsto fash
8 8.0

To make someone feel slightly annoyed

causes more practical trouble or worry rather than slight offence
to nark
vsto fash
  • UK
1 9.7

To annoy someone and make them feel irritated

causes practical trouble or worry by creating inconvenience

Antonyms

to comfort
172 1.0

To make someone feel less upset or in pain

to reassure
163 3.4

To make someone feel less worried and more confident

How Annoying

to torment
  • NSFW
107 7.2
to irritate
78 2.9
to annoy
246 1.0
to fash
  • UK
9.9
to bother
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

fash infinitive
fashed past
fashed past participle
fashing present participle
fashes third person singular

Etymology

Fash as a verb comes from the same old word facher meaning 'to annoy', so to fash someone is to trouble, worry, or annoy them.