faunch /fɔːnt͡ʃ/verb 4noun 1forms 3 verb4 •(US) To bite the bit, especially when restless; to champ.Ecstatic, they faunched and gamboled and I could hardly get them in the traces. — 1986 •(US) To worry; to be eager; to show impatience.Licking his fingers, Pat buckled on his white helmet and went to work. Wilkinson's relieving elevens were always faunching to go into action anyhow. — 2003 •(slang, old-fashioned) To desire; to yearn; to covet.He is a young fellow, not long out of adolescence, who faunches to set the world on fire but isn't sure how to go about it. — 1959 •(US) To complain; to rant; to rave.But on the evening before election, a staunch Democrat who had been on one of our telephone jobs came to my door — just faunching and spluttering. — 1931 noun1 •(slang, old-fashioned) A desire; a yearning. formsfaunched · faunching · faunches
