fause

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Scots[edit]

Adjective[edit]

fause (comparative mair fause, superlative maist fause)

  1. false
    She's fair and fause that causes my smart; / I lo'ed her meikle and lang; (Robert Burns, ‘She's Fair And Fause’)

Yola[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English faus, fals, from Old English fals.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

fause

  1. false
    Synonym: faulsa

References[edit]

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 39
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