Feud vs Feuder - What's the difference?
feud | feuder |
A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
(professional wrestling slang) A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
(obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
To carry on a feud.
One who feuds.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 9, author=Abby Goodnough, title=No, We Don't Want to Kiss and Make Up, work=New York Times
, passage=A month ago, however, two pioneering heart surgeons gave reason for optimism that not all feuders carry their ire to the grave. Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, 99, and Dr. Denton A. Cooley, 87, former partners who reconciled in Texas after a four-decade schism born of their rivalry, apparently decided the grudge was no longer worth sustaining. }}
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As nouns the difference between feud and feuder
is that feud is a state of long-standing mutual hostility or feud can be an estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service while feuder is one who feuds.As a verb feud
is to carry on a feud.feud
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fede, feide, , ultimately from the same Germanic source. Related to (l), (l).Alternative forms
* fede (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- ''You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
Verb
(en verb)- ''The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) feodum.Alternative forms
* feodSynonyms
* fee * fieffeuder
English
Noun
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