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/fɔː/ · interjection
(dated) An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell..
The very scent of the carrion—faugh—reached my nostrils at the distance where we stood.
Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.
Faugh! how it stinks! It doth not smell like a Christian.
“Civilized ways, forsooth,” scoffed Tarzan. “Jungle standards do not countenance wanton atrocities. There we kill for food and for self-preservation, or in the winning of mates and the protection of the young. Always, you see, in accordance with the dictates of some great natural law. But here! Faugh, your civilized man is more brutal than the brutes.[…]”
The orthodox religious world says faugh! to sex. Whereupon we thank [Sigmund] Freud for giving them tit for tat.
[…] The thought was a bitter one, and I don't suppose I have ever come closer to saying ‘Faugh!’
Use faugh when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Faugh means (dated) An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell..
Common synonyms include yuck, bah, ack, agh.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The very scent of the carrion—faugh—reached my nostrils at the distance where we stood.
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