different between tousel vs housel

English

Verb

tousel (third-person singular simple present tousels, present participle (UK) touselling or (US) touseling, simple past and past participle (UK) touselled or (US) touseled)

1. Alternative form of tousle

Anagrams

• lutose, solute, tousle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?z?l/
• Rhymes: -a?z?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English housel, from Old English h?sl (“housel, Eucharist, the Host, a sacrifice”), from Proto-Germanic *hunsl? (“sacrifice”), from Proto-Indo-European *?wen- (“holy”). Cognate with Icelandic húsl (“housel”), Gothic ???????????????????? (hunsl, “sacrifice, offering”), Proto-Slavic *sv?t? (“holy, sacred”) (OED).

The OED cites usage of the noun from the 10th to the 17th century. 19th century use is deliberately archaizing. The verb is attested from the 11th century, and in occasional usage persists into the 19th.

Noun

housel

1. (archaic) the Eucharist
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

     She said that he had a fair sweet death through God His goodness with mass-priest to be shriven, holy housel and sick men’s oil to his limbs.

Etymology 2

From Middle English houselen, from Old English h?slian (“to administer the sacrament”), from Proto-Germanic *hunsl?n? (“to sacrifice, offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *?wen- (“holy”). Cognate with Icelandic húsla (“to housel”), Old Swedish húsla (“to administer the Eucharist to”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (hunsljan, “to offer, sacrifice”).

Verb

housel (third-person singular simple present housels, present participle houseling or houselling, simple past and past participle houseled or houselled)

1. (transitive, archaic) To administer the Eucharist to.
2. (transitive, rare) To prepare for a journey.
   • 1750, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher:

     So housel all our hackneys that they may feel Compunction in their feet, and tire at Highgate.

Anagrams

• Houles

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English h?sl, h?sel, h?sul, from Proto-Germanic *hunsl?.

Alternative forms

• housil, housyl, housyll, housul, husel, husell, husul, hosel, hosil, hosill, hosol, howsel, howsell, howsill, hoosyl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hu?z?l/

Noun

housel (uncountable)

1. The bread and wine utilised at Holy Communion.
2. (rare) The partaking in or consumption of said bread and wine.
3. (rare) The ritual or ceremony of Holy Communion.
4. (rare) Participation or presence at Holy Communion.

Related terms

• houselen
• houselynge

Descendants

• English: housel (archaic)
• Scots: hoozle, ouzle (obsolete)

References

• “h?usel, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-23.

Etymology 2

From Old English h?slian.

Verb

housel

1. Alternative form of houselen

Old French

Alternative forms

• huesel

Etymology

huese +? -el.

Noun

housel m (oblique plural houseaus or houseax or housiaus or housiax or housels, nominative singular houseaus or houseax or housiaus or housiax or housels, nominative plural housel)

1. small boot

Descendants

• Middle French: houseau, houseaul, housel
  • French: houseau
    • ? English: huseau