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单词 fausen
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fausenn.

Forms: 1500s valson, 1600s fauson, 1600s valsen, 1600s– fausen, 1800s fazen (English regional (Kent)).
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare later fausen adj.
Obsolete.
A kind of eel. Applied variously to a fresh or saltwater eel, and to a small or large eel (see quots.). Also fausen-eel.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > unspecified types
pimpernol1251
shaft-eel1411
kempc1440
snig1483
stub eel15..
fausen1547
shafflin1553
muraena1555
scaffling1589
grig1611
long-fish1611
stone-grig1666
sea-serpent1752
bed-eel1769
sniggle1863
slipper1866
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xliv Take the fatnes of a valson ele.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 31 Of Eeles there are two sorts: the one Valsen, of best taste, comming from the fresh riuers..the other, bred in the salt water & called a Conger Eele.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxi. 190 The wave-sprung entrails, about which fausens and other fish Did shoal.
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 319 A fauson, or great fat eele.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 325/1 An Eel [is] first a Fausen, then a Grigg.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais iv. lx Fausens, and Griggs.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Fazen adj. The fazen eel is a large brown eel, and is so called at Sandwich in contradiction to the silver eel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

fausenadj.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: false adj.
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of false adj. (compare early modern English forms with medial -u- at that entry), after adjectives ending in -ing suffix2, -en suffix4, or -en suffix6. Compare later faux adj., and also earlier falsing n. and adj. at false v. Derivatives.
Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfaithfulness > [adjective]
unholdc1000
untrowingc1330
untrusty1556
unfaithful1565
infidelious1581
inconfident1603
fausen1611
recreant1613
infidous1656
infaithful1685
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [adjective]
unholdc1000
untruec1040
trothlessc1175
false?c1225
untrowingc1330
unfaithful1530
untrusty1556
truthless1567
infidelious1581
inconfident1603
fausen1611
false-hearta1616
infidous1656
infide1663
1611 Troublesome Raigne Iohn (new ed.) i. sig. E4 The Friers chest filld with a fausen Nunne.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. v. 57 Fausen sluts, like Bartholomew Faire pig-dressers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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