English Explanatory Dictionary

fasel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To unravel or become frayed.
  2. To become confused or ravelled.
noun
  1. Obsolete form of phasel.

Word forms

fasel fasels faselling faselled fasyll fazle

Etymology

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.

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