fearse

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English fers, from Old French fers, fiers, nominative of fer, fier, from Latin ferus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiːrs/

Adjective

fearse

1. fierce

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