fauch
English
Scots
Etymology
Old Scots faulch, from Old English fealh "fallow land".
Verb
fauch (third-person singular present fauchs, present participle fauchin, past faucht, past participle faucht)
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.
- (figuratively) Slander, denigration; tearing (one) to pieces.
References
- “fauch” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- "FAUCH" in J. Jamieson A Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1846) OCLC 67961200
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