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Fere vs Fer - What's the difference?

fere | fer |

As nouns the difference between fere and fer

is that fere is a companion, comrade or friend while fer is (l).

As an adjective fere

is (obsolete) fierce.

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 ----

    fer

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
    • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=“[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer' their feet '''fer''' th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' ' fer 'em. […]”}}
  • :1997 , , (w, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) , iv:
  • ::‘Got summat fer yeh here – I mighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right.’

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