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Eff vs Eft - What's the difference?

eff | eft |

As initialisms the difference between eff and eft

is that eff is Electronic Frontier FoundationEFT is emotional Freedom Technique.

As a verb eff

is fuck.

As a noun eft is

a newt, especially the European smooth newt (species: Triton punctatus).

As an adverb eft is

again; afterwards.

eff

English

Alternative forms

* ef

Verb

  • (euphemistic, slang) Fuck.
    • Eff off!
    And he kept saying, "Effing this, effing that."

    Usage notes

    Eff' is used to replace ' fuck as a taboo swearword but not in its sense of "to copulate".

    Derived terms

    * eff all * eff and blind * effing * eff off ----

    eft

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) efeta, of unknown origin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A newt, especially the European ).
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:
  • *:Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
    • Usage notes
    The term ).
    Derived terms
    * red eft

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) eft, from (etyl) . Compare after, aft.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (label) Again; afterwards
  • *14thC , (Geoffrey Chaucer), '' in ''(The Canterbury Tales) ,
  • *:Were I unbounden, all so may I the, / I woulde never eft come in the snare.
  • *1384 , (John Wycliffe), , ii, 1,
  • *:And eft he entride in to Cafarnaum, aftir eiyte daies.
  • *:
  • *:Than syr bedwere retorned ageyn & took the swerde in hys hande / and than hym thought synne and shame to throwe awaye that nobyl swerde / and so efte he hydde the swerde and retorned ageyn and tolde to the kyng that he had ben at the water and done his commaundemente
  • *1557 , , ,
  • *:And when they were all gone, / And the dim moon doth eft withhold the light,
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

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