Feud vs Foe - What's the difference?
feud | foe |
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.
(obsolete) Hostile.
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As a noun 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.As a verb feud
is to carry on a feud.As an initialism foe is
friends of the earth.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 * fieffoe
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) fo 'foe; hostile', from earlier ifo 'foe', from (etyl) 'to hate, be hostile' (compare Middle Irish oech 'enemy, fiend', Latin piget 'he is annoying', Lithuanian piktas ‘evil’, Albanian pis ‘dirty, scoundrel’).Adjective
(en adjective)- he, I say, could passe into Affrike onely with two simple ships or small barkes, to commit himselfe in a strange and foe countrie, to engage his person, under the power of a barbarous King.
Noun
(en noun)Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foe s’ glee.}}
