faunch

• 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.1954, Mari Sandoz, The Buffalo Hunters, published 2008, →ISBN, page 6:
• Ecstatic, they faunched and gamboled and I could hardly get them in the traces.1986, Jerry Bumpus, Heroes and Villains, →ISBN, The Outdoorsman, page 59:

Chiefly Midland American English and Western American English

• 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, Anne Ellis, Plain Anne Ellis, published 1997, →ISBN, page 151:
• You won't make nothing the day I die. I'll go out fighting and faunching.1943, John B. Sanford, The People from Heaven, published 1995, →ISBN, page 5:

Chiefly Midland American English and Western American English

• 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.1998 June 2, Wade Hampton Miller, “There's a nice archtop for sale at Downtown Disney”, in rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic (Usenet), message-ID <1998060219431000.PAA29427@ladder01.news.aol.com>:
• 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, Harold Keith, Forty-Seven Straight, →ISBN, page 166:

• 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, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Joe Fann/Jophan:
• I've long faunched for these, and they turned out to be better constructed than I expected, and even included a padded carry bag.1996 January, Eric Lindsay, Gegenschein, number 73, Winter Convention Trip in the USA, June 1994: