Foe vs Joe - What's the difference?
foe | joe |
(obsolete) Hostile.
*, vol.1, ch.23:
An enemy.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A common nickname for Joseph, also used as a formal male given name.
* 1981 , Second Movement , Nebula Winners: Science Fiction Writers of America, Harper&Row, 1981, ISBN 0060148306, page 207
, Joanne or Josephine.
As an initialism foe
is friends of the earth.As a noun joe is
(informal) a male; a guy; a fellow or joe can be (chiefly|us|informal) coffee.foe
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.}}
Synonyms
* (enemy) adversary, enemy, opponentAntonyms
* (enemy) ally, friendEtymology 2
An acronym of "fifty-one ergs", coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.Anagrams
*joe
English
(wikipedia Joe)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "With a name like Joe'," '''Joe''' always said, "I had to open a bar and grill, just so I could put up a sign saying '' Joe' s Bar and Grill'."