feud
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide, feide, fede, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe + -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“hostile”).
Cognate to Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”), German Fehde, and Dutch vete (“feud”) (directly inherited from Proto-West Germanic) alongside Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”) and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”) (borrowed from Middle Low German).
Base: foe
Affixes: -th
Inflected forms:
form: feuds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: feaud
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fede
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: feood
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fewd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fewde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fuide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fude
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: feuds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: feuding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: feuded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: feuded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fead
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: feaud
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: fede
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: feood
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: fewd
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: fewde
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: fuide
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: fude
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
pos: noun
examples: You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
Wherein my sword had not impressure made / Of our ranke feud: but the iust gods gainsay,
Mr. Cumming’s Dionysus in “The Bacchae” is conceived as a rock star, the rhythm-and-blues Maenads as his backup singers and groupies, and his feud with his cousin Pentheus, king of Thebes, as an encounter of the hedonistic, ambigendered, exotic Other, with “the fear of letting that into your culture,” Mr. Tiffany said.
The feuds between Namsang and Borduria continued. In 1875-76 the dispute between the Namsang and Borduria arose about the buffaloes which were carried off by Borduria people from Namsang areas.
gloss: A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
pos: noun
gloss: A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
gloss: To carry on a feud.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.
As a result of the heel turn, [Riki] Choshu was instantly elevated as a headliner and feuded with [Tatsumi] Fujinami in main events for two years over the WWF [World Wrestling Federation] International Heavyweight strap.
Don’t look back in anger—Oasis, the prodigal sons of Brit-pop, is returning. After years of public feuding and subtweets and alleged battery with a cricket bat, the Gallagher brothers—Liam and Noel, obvs—are working it out on the remix, with a rash of 2025 summer dates announced on their website.
Related words: blood feud
infight
Derived words: cyberfeud
feudist
feudlike
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