feud
Plural: feuds
Noun
- a bitter quarrel between two parties
- A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
- A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
- A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
- An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.
Verb
Verb Forms: feuded, feuding, feuds
- To engage in a prolonged and bitter quarrel or dispute.
- carry out a feud
- "The two professors have been feuding for years"
- To carry on a feud.
Examples
- Some players FEUD over dictionary interpretations, leading to tense Scrabble games.
- The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.
- You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
Origin / Etymology
Inherited from Northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide, feide, fede, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe + -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“hostile”).
Cognate to Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”), German Fehde, and Dutch vete (“feud”) (directly inherited from Proto-West Germanic) alongside Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”) and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”) (borrowed from Middle Low German).
Scrabble Score: 8
feud: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfeud: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
feud: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary