# fed
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɛd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛd

### Etymology 1

Clipping of federal.

#### Noun

fed (plural feds)
* (slang, derogatory) A federal government officer or official.
    That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!
* (MLE, MTE, slang) A police officer.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:police officer
** 2022 March 15, “Kill the Bill protester who led ‘f*** the feds’ chant jailed over police car torching”, in Metro‎:Jasmine York led chants of ‘f*** the f***ing feds’ as a crowd marched on Bristol’s Bridewell police station.
* (Canada, in the plural) The Canadian federal government.
    Salmon were becoming scarce in the river until the feds stepped in.

##### Derived terms

* fedpost

### Etymology 2

From federation.

#### Noun

fed (plural feds)
* (weightlifting, slang) A federation in which powerlifters organize to compete.
* Clipping of federation.

##### Derived terms

* e-fed

#### Verb

fed (third-person singular simple present feds, present participle fedding, simple past and past participle fedded)
* Clipping of federate.

##### Related terms

* defed

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fed
* simple past and past participle of feed

##### Derived terms

* belt-fed
* bloodfed
* cornfed
* fedpost
* fed up
* fullfed
* handfed
* malfed
* milkfed
* nonfed
* rainfed
* sheetfed
* snow-fed
* underfed
* unfed

### Anagrams

* DEF, Def., DfE, FDE, def

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse feitr (“fat”), from Proto-Germanic *faitaz.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [feˀð], [feðˀ]

#### Adjective

fed
* fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body), obese
* fatty, rich
* great, smashing, cool
* (of a typeface) bold
* (nominally, slang) joint
    at ryge en fed
       to smoke a joint (a "fat one")

##### Inflection

$^1$ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. $^2$ The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

##### Derived terms

* blegfed
* bollefed
* fede (verb)
* fedladen
* fedme c
* fedt n
* flommefed
* fuldfed
* halvfed
* hammerfed
* herrefed
* kodylfed
* kornfed
* laskefed
* megafed
* overfed
* skidefed
* smækfed
* smældfed
* småfed
* tromlefed
* tyndfed
* ufed

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse fit.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [feð]

#### Noun

fed n (singular definite feddet, plural indefinite fed)
* skein
* clove

##### Inflection
### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [feːˀð], [feðˀ]

#### Verb

fed
* imperative of fede

## Dutch
### Noun

fed f (uncountable)
* Abbreviation of federatie.

## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* föd (dialectal)

### Etymology

Uncertain. According to different sources:
* From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pentɜ- (“to shut, cover”).
* From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pintä- (“to close, cover”). Likely cognate with Finnish pinne and Udmurt поди (poďi).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɛd]
* Hyphenation: fed
* Rhymes: -ɛd

### Verb

fed
* (transitive) to cover
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fed

#### Derived terms

* fedetlen
* fedez
* fedezet
* fedés
* nem fedi a valóságot
(With verbal prefixes):
* átfed
* befed
* elfed
* felfed
* fölfed
* lefed

### See also

* fedd (“to chide, reprimand, scold”)

### References

* ↑ Entry #744 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
* ↑ fed in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
* ↑ Starostin's Uralic Database, Entry #754

### Further reading

* fed in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Middle English
### Noun

fed
* Alternative form of fede

## Volapük
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fed/

### Noun

fed (nominative plural feds)
* federation

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Derived terms

* fedalän (“federal state, Bundesstaat”)