English Explanatory Dictionary

fouse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To tumble, disarrange, rumple.
  2. To soil, dirty.
  3. To fade.
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

fouse fouses fousing foused fowse fouce fouss fousse

Etymology

From Middle English fousen, fusen, from Old English fȳsan (“to hasten”), from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan (“to make ready”). Doublet of feeze, fease, and faze.

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