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frenemy | foe |

As a noun frenemy

is (humorous) someone who pretends to be your friend, but is really your enemy.

As an initialism foe is

friends of the earth.

frenemy

English

Alternative forms

* frienemy

Noun

(frenemies)
  • (humorous) Someone who pretends to be your friend, but is really your enemy.
  • * 1987', '''I Ain't No Joke,''' by Eric B. and Rakim, on the album "Paid in Full." "Another enemy / Not even a ' frenemy. "
  • * 2000', '''frenemies —''Sex and the City, season 3 episode 16, first aired October 1. [title]
  • * 2001', In France the Seine has all the advantages of Northernness (a quality underrated by our Gallic '''frenemy ) but it is too fatally interested in Paris [...] —John Lanchester, ''The Debt to Pleasure. [http://print.google.com/print?id=5oQTntBdq_gC&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&sig=6gozFgkZj_c0l3BG07cBvv9pCk8]
  • * 2004', You know when you dump a guy, only to discover years later that he's evolved into the perfect boyfriend—for the high-school '''frenemy who convinced you to dump him in the first place...? —''The Ex-Factor, Andrea Semple. [back cover] [http://print.google.com/print?id=POrE5lu430EC&lpg=PA278&pg=PA278&sig=Qq4QqJpU6DCfifI5g-aj6w9GJo0]
  • * 2005', So why did we break up? Enter Blaize St. John, '''frenemy extraordinaire. She came, she saw, she stole my boyfriend. —''Single Girl's Guide to Murder, Joanne Meyer. [back cover] [http://print.google.com/print?id=uWFlXyWSpfIC&pg=PT4&lpg=PT4&sig=ixqqQtxAIczgL7QnPbqldCJEy1w]
  • * 2007', "Gates made a rare and instructive appearance with his longtime ' frenemy Steve Jobs." Appeared on Time's June 18, 2007 issue.
  • (humorous) A fair-weather friend who is also a rival.

    • Synonyms

    * betrayer * double-crosser * traitor * palhole

    See also

    * (wikipedia "frenemy")

    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)
  • (obsolete) Hostile.
  • *, vol.1, ch.23:
    • 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)
  • An enemy.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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, opponent
    Antonyms
    * (enemy) ally, friend

    Etymology 2

    An acronym of "fifty-one ergs", coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit of energy equal to 1044 joules.

    • Anagrams

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