Talk:fusome

RFV discussion: December 2021–January 2022
Rfv-sense: notable Notusbutthem (talk) 16:12, 8 December 2021 (UTC)


 * OED has this as an alt form of . I'd be interested to know 's reasons for supposing it comes from.
 * A cursory search turns up Scots uses:, (Kinloch of "Kinloch's Ballad Book" was Scottish), but nothing in English. This, that and the other (talk) 08:00, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * There is an alt form of spelt fusome1 (cf.,  in Scots), but that word has a totally different meaning - in English it means "copious, excessive, gross" and in Scots continues the connotation of "nauseating, disgusting" (influenced from foul).  however means "handy; handsome, comely, shapely, attractive, neat" and can also be spelt , , . It is certainly not the derivative of . I cannot now find the source that posits derivation from , , based on , a variant of , but that seemed at the time a better explanation than "variant of fulsome". Yet, there may also have been a reinforcement from , though I'm not 100% convinced this is totally the source - fusome also means "deft-handed, capable, workman-like" which viewsome doesn't mean. Leasnam (talk) 19:47, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 18:44, 8 January 2022 (UTC)