fasel.
To unravel or become frayed.
Meaning & usage
To unravel or become frayed.
To become confused or ravelled.
Where this word comes from
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.
Obsolete form of phasel.
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