fausen

English

Etymology

Compare Welsh llysowen (“eel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːzən/

Noun

fausen (plural fausens)

1. (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,

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

• “fausen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• faunes, unsafe