fawe
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Compare fain.
Adjective edit
fawe
- fain; glad; delighted
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales:
- I governed hem so wel after my lawe
That eche of hem ful blisful was and fawe
To bringen me gay thinges fro the feyre- I governed them so well by my rules that each was blissful and happy to bring me gay things from the fair
References edit
- “fawe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 2 edit
From Old English fāh.
Adjective edit
fawe
- Alternative form of fou (“multicolored”)