fausen
English
editEtymology
editCompare Welsh llysowen (“eel”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfausen (plural fausens)
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) A young eel.
- [1611?], Homer, “Book XXI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
- The wave-sprung entrails, about which fausens and other fish
Did shoal,
References
edit- “fausen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.