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fouse

The English word “fouse” has 3 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To tumble, disarrange, rumple.
  2. To soil, dirty.
  3. To fade.

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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