Fere vs Fele - What's the difference?
fere | fele |
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 , , ‘
*:The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere , / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Greatly, much, very
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Much; many.
Many (of).
*, Book V:
*:And fele of thy footmen ar brought oute of lyff, and many worshypfull presoners ar yolden into oure handys.
As nouns the difference between fere and fele
is that fere is a companion, comrade or friend while fele is honeycomb.As an adjective fere
is (obsolete) fierce.fere
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (Northumbrian) ).Alternative forms
* pheerNoun
(en noun)Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind’:
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) (lena) .Anagrams
* free * reef ----fele
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Adverb
- For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere.'' ? ''Hakluyts Voyages .
Adjective
(er)- Any maner of thynges desyryt..heraftyr may be had and ygrawnt by the fellyst of the sayd comynes.'' — dated 1456 from J.T. Gilbert, ''Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin , vol. 1 (1889)