fauch

== English == === Noun === fauch (plural fauches) Alternative form of faunch. === Verb === fauch (third-person singular simple present fauches, present participle fauching, simple past and past participle fauched) 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 and past participle faucht) To plough; to harrow; to prepare fallow ground for planting. (by extension) To scratch, to scrub; to toil, to work hard, to work quickly; to scrounge; to beat. === Noun === fauch (plural fauchs) (obsolete) Part of a field alternately tilled and left fallow. Fallow ground; unploughed ground. Action of ploughing or harrowing previously unploughed ground. (figurative) Slander, denigration; tearing (one) to pieces. === Adjective === fauch (comparative ?, superlative ?) Fallow. 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