Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of faucet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A faucet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
faucet .
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Examples
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Henry - I once was a cordwangler, but then they hung me by the fosset and nailed my moolie to the fence.
Mail's Moir Calls for Man-Love Moratorium Dungeekin 2009
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In Belgium we call this pompen met de kraan open, pumping with the fosset turned on?
Think Progress » Defeatism and Troop Morale: Bush’s False Argument 2005
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You are ambitious for poor knaves caps and legs: you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of three-pence to a second day of audience.
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You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an Orange-wife and a fosset-seller.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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You are ambitious for poor knaves 'caps and legs: you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller; and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a second day of audience.
Coriolanus 1607
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You are ambitious for poor knaves’ caps and legs: you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller; and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a second day of audience.
bilby commented on the word fosset
"You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 28, 2009