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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1868

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†FAROUCHIE, adj. Savage, cruel (Ayr. 1825 Jam.).Sc.(E) 1868 D. M. Ogilvy Willie Wabster's Wooing 16:
She's no farouchie nor furfluther'd.

[Jam. compares Eng. farouche, sullen, Fr. farouche, fierce, but the word is prob. rather a local curtailed form of ferocious. The 1868 quot. is based on Jam.]

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