Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall from 1604 spells it faschious, and defines it as
"grievous, or inducing to anger".
Webster's New International Dictionary from
1909, asserts that it derives from "
fash vexation" and means "
troublesome;
vexatious".
Webster's also suggests a
Scottish origin and offers the noun
fashiousness.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines Fashious as "Causing or giving anxiety or trouble; tiresome, vexatious. rarely of a person.
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