fause

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English faus, from Old English fals.

Adjective

fause (comparative mair fause, superlative maist fause)

1. false

   She's fair and fause that causes my smart; / I lo'ed her meikle and lang; (Robert Burns, ‘She's Fair And Fause’)

References

• “fause”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

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Alternative forms

• faulse, valse

Etymology

From Middle English faus, fals, from Old English fals.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑːs/, /fɑls/, /vals/

Adjective

fause

1. false

   Synonym: faulsa

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 39