fash

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   Scots and Northern English: to trouble, bother, or worry someone, often oneself

   Do not fash yourself about the delay; the train will arrive soon.

2. 2
   noun

   Scots: trouble, worry, or bother

   Organizing the meal was a great fash, but everyone enjoyed it.

In Scots from Older Scots fash, borrowed from early modern French fascher (modern fâcher, "to anger or annoy"), traditionally traced to Latin fastus ("disdain"). It remains familiar in the phrase don't fash yourself.

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