fasel
verbEtymology 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.
- My sleve is fasylled: ma manche est rauelée.1530, John Palsgrove, Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse, Paris: Imprimerie nationale, page 546:
- The edges of those pieces which seem inclined to fazzle out must be turned in, and tacked also to the sheeting.1885, “A New Kind of Patchwork”, in Little Folks: A Magazine for the Young, London: Cassel, page 67:
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Figuratively, Obsolete To become confused or ravelled.
- […] which hath fazled and entangled this Controverſie.1636, Thomas Goodwin, A Child of Light Walking in Darkness, London: J. G., page 89: