frazzle

Meanings

Verb

• To fray or wear down, especially at the edges.
• To drain emotionally or physically.
• to burn

Noun

• A burnt fragment; a cinder or crisp.
• The condition or quality of being frazzled; a frayed end.

Origin

• Originally an East Anglian word. Either from a variant of the now obsolete fazle, altered due to influence from fray#Etymology_1, or from a blend of fazle and fray. fazle comes from earlier fasel, which was inherited from Middle English facelyn. facelyn was a verbal derivative of the noun fasylle, which was in turn a derivative (with the diminutive suffix -el) of Old English fæs, from Proto-West Germanic *fas, from Proto-Germanic *fasōn.
• Related to German Faser.