fawe

Middle English

Etymology 1

Compare fain.

Adjective

fawe

  1. fain; glad; delighted
    • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales:
      I governed hem so wel after my lawe
      That eche of hem ful blisful was and fawe
      To bringen me gay thinges fro the feyre
      I governed them so well by my rules that each was blissful and happy to bring me gay things from the fair

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fawe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Etymology 2

From Old English fāh.

Adjective

fawe

  1. Alternative form of fou (“multicolored”)
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