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adj
(of things) Cosy; clean; neat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
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adj
(of persons) Comfortable; cosy; safe.
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adj
Smooth; soft; downy; velvety.
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Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
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adj
Faithful, loyal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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adv
In a feal manner.
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noun
Alternative form of fail (“piece of turf cut from grassland”)
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
To hide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, transitive
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verb
To press on, advance.
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Usage: obsolete
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History
From Middle English fele, fæle (“proper, of the right sort”), from Old English fǣle (“faithful, trusty, good; dear, beloved”), from Proto-West Germanic *failī, from Proto-Germanic *failijaz (“true, friendly, familiar, good”), from Proto-Indo-European *pey- (“to adore”). Cognate with Scots feel, feelie (“cosy, neat, clean, comfortable”), West Frisian feilich (“safe”), Dutch veil (“for-sale”), Dutch veilig (“safe”), German feil (“for-sale”), Latin pīus (“good, dutiful, faithful, devout, pious”).
Borrowed from Middle Scots feal, from Early Scots feal, from Old French feal, collateral form of feeil, from Latin fidelis.
Unknown; see fail.
From Middle English felen, from Old Norse fela (“to hide”), from Proto-Germanic *felhaną (“to conceal, hide, bury, trust, intrude”), from Proto-Indo-European *pele(w)-, *plē(w)- (“to hide”). Cognate with Old High German felahan (“to pass, trust, sow”), Old English fēolan (“to cleave, enter, penetrate”).
From Middle English felen (“to come at (one's enemies), advance”), from Old English fēolan (“to cleave, enter, penetrate”), from Proto-Germanic *felhaną.
