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fange

Pronunciation: /fɑ̃ʒ/

“fange” is a French word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. filth, mire
  2. filth, baseness, debauchery
  3. fen, swamp

In French

  1. Bourbe; boue.
  2. État d’avilissement d’une personne qui vit dans la débauche, qui mène une conduite honteuse et déréglée, bassesse, abjection.
  3. Pays marécageux.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French fange, from Old French fange (“mud, addle, mire”), from Vulgar Latin *fanga ~ *fangus (“mud”) of Germanic origin, see there for more. Compare Spanish and Italian fango m. Doublet of fagne (“marshland, fen”).

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