Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo unravel or become frayed. · To become confused or ravelled.
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.
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