fasel

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English faselen (“to fray”), from fasel (“frayed”, adjective) and fasel (“a frayed edge or border, fringe”, noun), probably a diminutive of Middle English fas (“fringe”), from Old English fæs (“fringe”). Compare Dutch vezel (“fibre, filament”), German faseln (“to ravel out, ramble”). Doublet of pizzle. ==== Alternative forms ==== fasyll, fazle ==== Verb ==== fasel (third-person singular simple present fasels, present participle faselling, simple past and past participle faselled) (obsolete, dialectal) To unravel or become frayed. (obsolete, figuratively) To become confused or ravelled. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== fasel (plural fasels) Obsolete form of phasel. === References === “fasel, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. “fasel, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. === Anagrams === A.S.L.E.F., FALSE, Leafs, alefs, false, feals, fleas, leafs, lefsa