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Word: faugh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Branching into elementary zoology Gillman informed the court that an ahu was a Central Asian gazelle, an ani a Brazilian variety of the keel-billed cuckoo. No slang, he insisted, was pah, which meant "bah, faugh, fudge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Word Game | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...celebrated conversions. Up Strangford Lough he sailed in his galley, was mistaken for a pirate, 1,500 years ago this year or next. St. Patrick converted the Irish, consecrated 350 bishops, among them a friend of his named St. MacCarthem. Traditionally he drove the snakes from old Erin, howling "Faugh-a-ballaugh!" On what is now Ireland's Holy Hill he spent 40 days, heckled by demons in the form of hideous birds of prey which he finally scattered by ringing his bell. Then, like Jacob, he wrestled with a visiting angel, extracting five concessions. The last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Dublin | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

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