fouse

Meaning

Adjective

• ready, eager, prompt, quick, striving forward, inclined to, willing
• ardent, zealous, passionate, expectant, brave, noble: ready to depart, die; dying

Origin

• From Middle English fous, fus, from Old English fūs ("ready, eager, striving forward, inclined to, willing, prompt; expectant, brave, noble: ready to depart, die; dying"), from Proto-Germanic *funsaz ("ready, eager"), from Proto-Indo-European *pn̥tstós, from *pent- + *-tós.