Word.ws English Dictionary

fouse

fouse verb: to tumble, disarrange, rumple.

Verb

fouse (third-person singular simple present fouses, present participle fousing, simple past and past participle foused)

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

Proper noun capitalized: Fouse

Fouse (plural Fouses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of fouse

Verb
third-person singular presentfouses
present participlefousing
past participlefoused
pastfoused
alternative formfowse
alternative formfouce
alternative formfouss
alternative formfousse
Proper noun
pluralFouses

Origin of fouse

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.

Questions about fouse

What does fouse mean?
Fouse means to tumble, disarrange, rumple.
What part of speech is fouse?
Fouse can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of fouse?
The past tense of fouse is foused.

Words near fouse in the dictionary

  1. fourtino
  2. fourtinos
  3. fourty
  4. fourty-one
  5. fourwheeled
  6. fouse
  7. Fouses
  8. Foushee
  9. Foushees
  10. foussa
  11. foussas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fouse (page history and authors); Fouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fouse.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fouse. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.