What is the name meaning of FAUL. Phrases containing FAUL
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FAUL
Girl/Female
Tamil
Sinless, Without any fault, Beauty
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : evidently a habitational name from an unidentified place, perhaps Falkenham in Suffolk, which is named from an Old English personal name, Falta (+ genitive -n) + Old English hÄm .
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English
English : nickname from the animal, Middle English, Old English fox. It may have denoted a cunning individual or been given to someone with red hair or for some other anecdotal reason. This relatively common and readily understood surname seems to have absorbed some early examples of less transparent surnames derived from the Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks.Irish : part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney).Jewish (American) : translation of the Ashkenazic Jewish surname Fuchs.Americanized spelling of Focks, a North German patronymic from the personal name Fock (see Volk).Americanized spelling of Fochs, a North German variant of Fuchs, or in some cases no doubt a translation of Fuchs itself.
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English
English : variant of Faulks.
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English (Kent)
English (Kent) : of uncertain origin. Reaney suggests that it may be a metonymic occupational name for a fish seller or a baker, from Middle English fagge, Old English facg, which denoted a kind of flatfish, and perhaps also a flat loaf. Another Middle English word fagge apparently denoted a fault in the weave of a piece of cloth.
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English
English : variant of Fall.Variant spelling of German Faul.
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
King Henry IV, Part 2' Robert Shallow, a country justice. 'King John' Robert Faulconbridge, and...
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English
English : occupational name for someone who kept and trained falcons (a common feudal service). Falconry was a tremendously popular sport among the aristocracy in medieval Europe, and most great houses had their falconers. The surname could also have arisen as metonymic occupational name for someone who operated the siege gun known as a falcon.
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English
English : variant of Faulks.French : probably a metonymic occupational name for a reaper or scythe maker, from faux ‘scythe’.
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English
English : nickname for someone who resembled a bird, in part representing a Middle English continuation of the Old English personal name Fugol, meaning ‘bird’, originally a byname, or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fowler.Americanized spelling of German Faul.
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English
English : variant spelling of Faulkner.Americanized form of the French cognate Fauconnier ‘falconer’.
Girl/Female
Shakespearean
King John' Lady Faulconbridge, widow of Sir Robert Faulconbridge.
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Irish or Scottish
Irish or Scottish : reduced form of McFaul.English : variant of Fall 2.South German : from a byname for a weakling, from Middle High German vūl, voul ‘frail’, ‘decayed’, ‘foul’, ‘weak’. Later the term took on the meaning ‘lazy’ and in some cases the surname may have arisen from this sense.
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English (Suffolk)
English (Suffolk) : variant of Faulks.
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German
German : occupational name for a falconer, Middle High German vakenoere. In medieval times falconry was a sport practised only by the nobility; it was the task of the falconer to look after the birds and train young ones.English : variant spelling of Faulkner.Daniel Falckner (1666–c.1745), German Lutheran pastor and agent for the Frankfurt Land Company, founded the first German Lutheran congregation in America.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Faultless
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English (mainly Norfolk and Suffolk)
English (mainly Norfolk and Suffolk) : variant of Faulks.Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Facco, a variant of Falco, itself probably a short form of a personal name formed with fal, a tribal name (as in Westphalia) or alternatively a byname meaning ‘falcon’.
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English
English : from the Anglo-Norman French personal name Fau(l)ques (oblique case Fau(l)que), originally a Germanic byname meaning ‘falcon’.
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English
English : from Middle English, Old French faucon, falcun ‘falcon’, either a metonymic occupational name for a falconer, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the falcon, which was regarded as a symbol of speed and courage in the Middle Ages. In a few cases, it may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a man who operated the piece of artillery named after the bird of prey. Compare Faulkner.In Louisiana, the name Falcón is borne by the descendants of Canary Islanders brought in to settle in 1779.
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English
English : variant of Folds.Scottish : habitational name from any of various places called Faulds, as for example in Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, and Perth.
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n.
The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
a.
Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
v. t.
To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
n.
One who commits a fault.
v. i.
To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
n.
The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
n.
In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
adv.
In a faulty manner.
n.
Quality or state of being faulty.
n.
One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.
v. t.
To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
n.
One who seeks out faults.
v. t.
To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.
a.
Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.
a.
Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Fault
a.
Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.
a.
Full of faults or sins.
v. t.
To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air.
imp. & p. p.
of Fault