eft
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English evete, from Old English efeta, of unknown origin.
Noun
eft (plural efts)
- A newt, especially the European smooth newt(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
- 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis:
- How did he like it when the live creatures
- Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,
- And worm, slug, eft, with serious features
- Came in, each one, for his right of trover?
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:
Usage notes
The term red eft is used for the land-dwelling juvenile stage of the Eastern newt (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.).
Derived terms
Translations
newt
Etymology 2
From Old English eft, from Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Compare after, aft.
Adverb
eft (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Again; afterwards
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales,
- Were I unbounden, all so may I the, / I woulde never eft come in the snare.
- 1384, John Wycliffe, Bible (Wycliffe): Mark, ii, 1,
- And eft he entride in to Cafarnaum, aftir eiyte daies.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book XXI::
- Than syr bedwere retorned ageyn & took the swerde in hys hande / and than hym thought synne and shame to throwe awaye that nobyl swerde / and so efte he hydde the swerde and retorned ageyn and tolde to the kyng that he had ben at the water and done his commaundemente
- 1557, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Fourth Book of Virgil,
- And when they were all gone, / And the dim moon doth eft withhold the light, […]
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales,
Derived terms
Translations
again; afterwards
Anagrams
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian eft, Old Saxon eft, Old Norse ept.
Pronunciation
Adverb
eft
- again
- back (of return or reversal)
- Ne wēndon wē þīn eft swā hraðe!
- We didn't expect you back so soon!
- Iċ wȳsċe þæt iċ mihte eft niman þæt iċ cwæþ.
- I wish I could take back what I said.
- Mīn frēond āġeaf mē eft þā bōc þe iċ hiere lāh.
- My friend gave me back the book that I lent her.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
- Þā ēode se prēost eft tō his weorce.
- Then the priest went back to his work.
- afterwards
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian eft, Old English eft, Old Norse ept.
Adverb
eft
Yola
Noun
eft
References
- J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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