Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Troublesome; vexatious.
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Examples
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“In troth, not I,” said the patient drudge, “unless it may be when she is a wee fashious about washing her laces; but I have been her keeper since she was a bairn, neighbour Suddlechop, and that makes a difference.”
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Gryce, who could not bear to be fussed, and time proved her douce and not fashious, she became quite a favorite with her rough-grained hostess, who wondered more and more where Emmanuel had picked her up, and whose bairn she really was.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various
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Next day we marched by daylight, and for want of proper horses the artillery was very fashious, [100] and a last load with cannon shot happening to break on the road, upon Lord George's giving a hearty dram to the men, they carried, some one, some two, some three of the shot, with all their arms and acuterments.
The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) James Pringle Thomson
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It may be for your lordship's safety to say this fashious Davie Balfour is your friend and housemate.
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It may be for your lordship's safety to say this fashious Davie Balfour is your friend and housemate.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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It may be for your lordship's safety to say this fashious Davie
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The mistress was fashious, for she did not like anybody about her to please themselves, and she had got used to me, as I said before; but the master was as reasonable as she was the contrary.
Mr. Hogarth's Will Catherine Helen Spence 1867
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"My mother has been fishing sair for an invite to Peebles Pairk; but I'm for putting it off a little, for I'd wish her to know her place at once, and then there'll be no fashious doings afterwards, when we'll be having grand company at the pairk."
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But our folk were at great pains lang syne to big up the passage in some parts, and pu 'it down in others, for fear o' some uncanny body getting into it, and finding their way down to the cove: it wad hae been a fashious job that --- by my certie, some o 'our necks wad hae been ewking.' '
The Antiquary 1845
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A reeky house and a girnin 'wife, will lead a man a fashious life.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
mollusque commented on the word fashious
Troublesome, annoying, vexatious, tiresome.
January 20, 2008