Faunch
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /fɔːnt͡ʃ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Faunch is a noun meaning (US, equestrianism) To bite the bit, especially when restless; to champ.
Meaning
(US, equestrianism) To bite the bit, especially when restless; to champ.
More Meanings
- (US, chiefly Midland American English and Western American English) To complain; to rant; to rave.
- (US, chiefly Midland American English and Western American English) To worry; to be eager; to show impatience.
- (dated, fandom slang) A desire; a yearning.
- (dated, fandom slang) To desire; to yearn; to covet.
Example Sentences
You won't make nothing the day I die. I'll go out fighting and faunching.
Ecstatic, they faunched and gamboled and I could hardly get them in the traces.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- faunches
- fauch
- faunching
- faunched
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fauch, fawnch, fiending, faaan, furversion, fanac.
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