foe
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Old English fāh, ġefā, from Proto-Germanic *faiho-. Cognates include Old High German fehan and Old Norse feikn.
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foe (comparative more foe, superlative most foe)
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- (obsolete) Hostile.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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 [...]
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, vol. 1 ch. 23:
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foe (plural foes)
- An enemy.
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enemy
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[edit] Etymology 2
An acronym of fifty-one ergs
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foe (plural foes)
- A unit of energy equal to 1044 joules.