Meanings
nounfausen (plural fausens)
plural fausens
- UKdialectalobsoleteA young eel.
The wave-sprung entrails, about which fausens and other fish Did shoal,
[1611?], Homer, “Book XXI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC
Origin
Compare Welsh llysowen (“eel”).
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