Fele vs Fule - What's the difference?
fele | fule |
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Greatly, much, very
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Much; many.
Many (of).
*, Book V:
*:And fele of thy footmen ar brought oute of lyff, and many worshypfull presoners ar yolden into oure handys.
(dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) fool
* {{quote-book, year=1818, author=Sir Walter Scott, title=The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2, chapter=, edition=
, passage="What's the fule thing shaking for?" said he; "I mean nothing but civility to you. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1888, author=H. Rider Haggard, title=Colonel Quaritch, V.C., chapter=, edition=
, passage=That army gent, Major Boston, as is agent for all the College lands down the valley, he be a poor weak fule
* {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Zane Grey, title=The Light of Western Stars, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Why, you dog-goned old fule , you cain't hit thet bawl." }}
As an adverb fele
is greatly, much, very.As an adjective fele
is much; many.As a pronoun fele
is many (of).As a noun fule is
fool.fele
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Alternative forms
* (l)Adverb
- For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere.'' ? ''Hakluyts Voyages .
Adjective
(er)- Any maner of thynges desyryt..heraftyr may be had and ygrawnt by the fellyst of the sayd comynes.'' — dated 1456 from J.T. Gilbert, ''Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin , vol. 1 (1889)
Derived terms
* the felest — the majority, mostPronoun
(English Pronouns)Derived terms
* (l) * felefoldAnagrams
* * ----fule
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