fash

verb

1. (Geordie, Northern-England, Scotland, transitive)To worry; to bother, annoy.

   “"I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out."”

2. (Geordie, Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive)To trouble oneself; to take pains.

   ““They,” said he, meaning the collops, “are such as I gave his Royal Highness in this very house; bating the lemon juice, for at that time we were glad to get the meat and never fashed for kitchen. Indeed, there were mair dragoons than lemons in my country in the year forty-six.””

3. (Nigeria, slang)To ignore or forget about someone or something.
4. (slang)To make something fascist.

noun

1. (Geordie, Northern-England, Scotland)A worry; trouble; bother.
2. (UK, derogatory, especially, slang)A fascist, a member of the far-right.

   “The Butchers Here is an old Munich policeman — Wilhelm Frick with eyes like those of a fash.”

   “It is not they, with their comfortable middle class speaking-tour and festival-circuit lives, who will put on the black and go punch a Nazi or bash a fash. No. It will be the vulnerable, overwhelmingly queer, poor youth [...]”

3. (UK, derogatory, especially, in-plural, slang)The far-right, especially violent far-right demonstrators, collectively.

   “Used to go down to London on bash-the-fash awaydays; turn up at National Front marches and give them a toeing.”

   “Five of our lads had just watched the riot police go into the Wellington and give the fash a kicking.”

   “The women in NP at the time were very good spotters and we had good access to intel, photos etc. on the fash.”

adj

1. (slang)Fashionable.

   “Dan Valentine works as a bartender in a pissy and discreet Boston Village gay bar called "Bonaparte's". Clarisse is a chi-chi phruit phly who occasionally puts in time pushing real estate in fash Back Bay and the South End.”