faunch

A desire; a yearning.

Byrne was the best thing about *Man in the Iron Mask*, as far as plot and acting. I do confess a faunch for John Malkovitch, and DiCaprio should be allowed to develop his considerable latent acting abilities.

Me, I'd caution against a Worldcon as one's first convention for somebody who has such a faunch -- not to the point of avoiding it, if one were handy -- as while there's a lot that's fun at a Worldcon, it tends to be on the largish side, it's fairly easy to get lostish, and in most times and places (at least in the US) there's likely to be a good convention closer in time and space than the next Worldcon.

To bite the bit, especially when restless; to champ.

Instead of the fine faunching black mare he usually rode he was on a light grey today, a little slower if it came to a run from the Indians or a buffalo stampede, but much less conspicuous against the snow.

Ecstatic, they faunched and gamboled and I could hardly get them in the traces.

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.

You won't make nothing the day I die. I'll go out fighting and faunching.

To worry; to be eager; to show impatience.

Rather than have me fidget and faunch while waiting in line (I'd neglected to bring a book) my wife sent me off to the music store with her blessing, with the promise to send our daughter Celia to fetch me when we finally got our table an hour later.

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.

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.

I've long faunched for these, and they turned out to be better constructed than I expected, and even included a padded carry bag.