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Ferine vs Frine - What's the difference?

ferine | frine |

As an adjective ferine

is pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.

As a verb frine is

to grumble, whine, or whimper; fret; show discontent; murmur; complain.

ferine

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 162:
    • the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) . . .

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    frine

    English

    Verb

    (frin)
  • To grumble, whine, or whimper; fret; show discontent; murmur; complain.