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单词 fauch
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fauchadj.n.

Brit. /fɒx/, /fɔːx/, U.S. /fɔk/, /fɑk/, Scottish English /fɔx/
Forms: pre-1700 fawch, pre-1700 1900s– fauch, 1700s–1800s faugh.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: fallow adj.1
Etymology: Variant of fallow adj.1, probably by analogy with variation between fallow adj.2 and faugh adj.
Scottish. Now rare.
Of a pale brownish or reddish-yellow colour; = fallow adj.1 1. In later use sometimes more generally: pale. Also as n. Cf. fauchie adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > brownish
faucha1522
brownish1555
browny1582
brownish-coloured1685
earth colour1775
the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > reddish yellow > pale
fallowOE
favel1490
faucha1522
fallow-coloured1567
fulvid1598
fulve1657
fulvous1664
flavid1762
fox-coloured1796
fulvescent1817
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. Prol. 37 The grond fadyt, and fawch wolx all the feildis.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. i. 34 A lenȝe watry garmond dyd hym vaill, Of cullour fawch [L. glauco].
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. 108 Sum greyce, sum gowlys..Blanchit or brovne, fawch ȝallow mony ane.
1776 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (ed. 2) II. Gloss. 251/1 Faugh, a colour between white and red.
1790 A. Shirrefs Poems Gloss. 15/1 Faugh, a colour between white and brown.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 202 Faugh-blue, bleached blue.
1985 D. Purves Weidae's Son & Streinger (SCOTS) Hir hair wes blek as a sternless nicht, an hir skin wes as fauch as the muinlicht.
2011 www.drunkenboat.com No. 13 (Internet Archive Wayback Machine 10 Apr.) The cluds set antrinwice, wan agin a fauch-blae lift.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fauchv.

Brit. /fɒx/, /fɔːx/, U.S. /fɔk/, /fɑk/, Scottish English /fɔx/
Forms: Scottish pre-1700 fawch, pre-1700 1700s– fauch, 1700s–1800s faugh, 1800s–1900s fach (Shetland), 1800s–1900s fyach (north-eastern), 1900s fyauch (north-eastern), 1900s– fyaach (north-eastern); English regional (northern) 1700s–1800s faugh, 1800s fauf, 1800s fawf.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: faugh n.
Etymology: < faugh n. Compare fallow v.2
Scottish and English regional (northern).
1. transitive. = fallow v.2 (in various senses); esp. to plough or break up (ground). Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records the sense ‘to plough or harrow fallow ground’ as still in use in Shetland, Caithness, and Aberdeen in 1949, and (with specific reference to the preparation of the ground for spring sowing) in Midlothian and Berwickshire in 1951.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivate or till [verb (transitive)] > lay fallow
summerlay1467
fauch1579
summer fallow1625
rest1634
summerland1667
summer work1687
winter-fallowa1722
pin-fallow1808
dead-fallow1851
fallow1873
bare-fallow1961
1579 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 225 The said Patrik gadderit the haill plewis of the cuntrie, and fauchit the ley land of the said Gilbertis tak landis.
a1600 MS Rec. Aberdeen in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1825) Suppl. (at cited word) Sayand at [= that] he wald nocht eir nor faucht his land sa air in the yeir.
1614 Burnett Family Papers in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Fauch The said Alexander Gordoune..sall ȝeirllie..sett, fauch, and eir the land of the gleib.
1699 Ld. Belhaven Countrey-mans Rudim. 8 I advise you..to Fauch or Fallow some part of these two Breaks designed for Pease.
1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 421 Faugh, to plough, and let it lie fallow a summer or winter.
1799 A. Johnstone in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XXI. 139 A part of folding ground, enriched by the dung of sheep and of cattle..or fauched (a kind of bastard fallow) and manured by a little compost dung, bore three, four or five crops.
1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 80 I brawlie can faugh yere weel plowed lea.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 54 Fauf, to fallow.
1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield (at cited word) They say a man is faufing his land when he is cleaning it with no crop on it.
a1899 J. E. Dent in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 301/1 [S. Durham] That field was faufed last year.
2. transitive. Scottish (north-eastern). To rub vigorously. Also with up. Now rare.
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1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 44 Fauch, to rub with vigour.
1929 Miss Chessar in Sc. National Dict. (1956) IV. (at cited word) [Aberdeenshire] Fyauch up the kitchie tables, mak' them as fite's the snaw.
1951 D. D. Murison in Sc. National Dict. (1956) IV. (at cited word) [Aberdeenshire] The soo was fyauchin itsel on the gate-post.

Derivatives

ˈfauching n.
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1710 in Ld. Fountainhall Decisions (1761) II. 597 The method of labouring outfield there, was by often liming, dunging, faulding, and faughing, they took four or five crops, and let it rest as long.
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 44 Fauchan, a constant rubbing; commonly used when speaking of the skin.
1923 H. Beaton Benachie 172 I'll pit a wisp aneath her heid an' gie her a gweed fachin o' a rub.
1981 R. A. Dodgshon Land & Society in Early Scotl. vii. 231 Where large quantities of pasture existed, faughing was sometimes used.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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