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Fere vs Dere - What's the difference?

fere | dere |

As nouns the difference between fere and dere

is that fere is a companion, comrade or friend while dere is door.

As adjectives the difference between fere and dere

is that fere is (obsolete) fierce while dere is bitter.

fere

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) (Northumbrian) ).

Alternative forms

* pheer

Noun

(en noun)
  • A companion, comrade or friend.
  • *1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book V:
  • *:they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys .
  • (label) A spouse; an animal's mate.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere .
  • *1830 , , ‘ Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind’:
  • *:The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere , / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) (lena) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) fierce
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * free * reef ----

    dere

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dere, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Hurt; harm; injury.
    • She did him dere .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) deren, derien, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (der)
  • To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
  • * c.1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
    • And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere .
  • * :
    • Thenne herd he a voyse say / Galahad I see there enuyronne aboute the so many angels that my power may not dere the /
  • To annoy, trouble, grieve.
    • Derived terms
    *

    Anagrams

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