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Answer for the clue "Trouble, in Ayr ", 4 letters:
fash

Word definitions for fash in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fash \Fash\, n. Vexation; anxiety; care. [Scot.] Without further fash on my part. --De Quincey.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fash is a village in Fash Rural District , in the Central District of Kangavar County , Kermanshah Province , Iran . At the 2006 census, its population was 1,925, in 506 families.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s (Scottish) "to trouble, annoy, vex;" 1580s, "be angered," from Old French fascher (Modern French fâcher ) "to anger, displease, offend," from Medieval Latin derived verb from Latin fastidiosus (see fastidious ). As a noun from 1794. Related: Fashery ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context Scotland Geordie Northern England English) A worry; trouble; bother. vb. (context Scotland Geordie Northern England English) To worry; to bother, annoy.

Usage examples of fash.

RIGHT HAPPILY transferred from the vice of avarice to that of ebriety: He that has just eneugh may soundly sleep, The owercome only fashes folk to keep.

There was no further trouble on the western frontier of Egypt, and a repercussion of the Senussi discontent far south in Darfur was satisfactorily suppressed by a detachment of the Egyptian Army which occupied El Fasher on 22 May.

RIGHT HAPPILY transferred from the vice of avarice to that of ebriety: He that has just eneugh may soundly sleep, The owercome only fashes folk to keep.

Here we have a witness - never fash whether material or not - a witness in this cause, kidnapped by that old, lawless, bandit crew of the Glengyle Macgregors, and sequestered for near upon a month in a bourock of old ruins on the Bass.

A love so strong that it fashed her a wee, and she was not yet ready to speak of it.

That wouldn't have fashed him, except he'd recently noticed something that had made him realize time was critical: His eyes were no longer returning to gold, not even with their constant lovemaking.

Had I not been bleeding and so weak, like as not, their appearance would have fashed me far more than it did.

Saw ye how his horse fashed itsel' against crossing the Grassrill, and baulked at goin' over the Churrachan Bridge?

Stop fashing yourself laddie just do what you've prepared yourself and Nigel and Alana for don't think of the cold world watching with its mechanical moonlet eyes pretend it's the first soul-trip just like long years ago a natural thing if a wonder an old thing cherished in spite of doubts and oppression and now it's time we showed it proudly and how will you like being a famous man my own wee Jamie?

There I was, fashing my poor yeoman over it, until she pointed out I had signed the thing Why, I canna even finish a cup of tea without someone needing me for something.