Feud

Definitions: Feud

Feud

Noun

1. A bitter quarrel between two parties.

Verb

1. Carry out a feud; "The two professors have been feuding for years".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "feud" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Feud

Discord

Variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism; (dissent); feud, faction.

At odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.

Property

Manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium; (free); fief, fieff, feoff, feud, zemindary, dependency; arado, merestead, ranch.

Revenge

Noun: revenge, revengement; vengeance; avengement, avengeance, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation; day of reckoning.

Crosswords: Feud

Scottish (may), Serbo-Croatian (feudatory).

Richard Dawson just sits there until it's time to go back and play the feud alright! (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

Forty Acre Feud (1968)

Feud with a Dude (1968)

Canned Dog Feud (1965)

Devil's Feud Cake (1963)

Cat Feud (1958)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Wizard in a Feud (reference)

• Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud (reference)

• The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Jethro's First Love/Great Feud (reference)

• Border Feud (reference)

• The Range Feud (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• No Ruinous Feud [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Family Feud (Jewel Case) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Zoot suiters lined up outside Los Angeles jail en route to court after feud with sailors.Credit: Library of Congress.

Sign in front of mountaineer's home announcing the end of the dispute or feud with one of his neighbors. Up Squabble Creek, near Buckhorn, Kentucky.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Australia

The federal government's waterfront reform policies, after a bitter feud with the maritime union, have begun to show improvements in efficiency and work practices. (references)

Human Rights

Honduras

In May a public feud between the Public Ministry (or Attorney General's office) and the Security Ministry barred local district attorneys from working in police stations, thus reducing the overall effectiveness of law enforcement. (references)

Minorities

India

Hindus and Muslims continue to feud over the construction of mosques several centuries ago on three sites where Hindus believe that temples stood previously. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "feud": be at feud with ♦ blood feud ♦ Improper feud. Additional references.

Beginning with "feud": feud-ridden.

Ending with "feud": blood-feud, death-feud.

Albanian

grindje (altercation, bickering, blowup, bobbery, brawl, breach, breeze, broil, contention, contest, disagreement, discord, disputation, dispute, dissension, fight, fray, friction, jar, quarrel, squabble, strife, variance, wrangle), armiqësi (animosity, animus, antagonism, bellicosity, chill, enmity, grudge, prejudice), çiflig (demesne, fief, hacienda). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حزازة (hatred), ‏عادى (oppose), ‏عداء (animosity, galloper, galloping, hostility, racing, running, war), ‏ضغينة (grouch, grouchiness, grudge, hatred, malevolence, rancor, rancour, resentment, spite), ‏إقطاعة (appanage, benefice, fief, vassalage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

феодално владение (fief, seigniory), феод, вражда между семейства, васално право. (various references)

Chinese 

讎 (decide judicially, enmity), 仇隙, 仇 (a rival, an enemy, animosity, enmity, hatred, match, mate), 世仇 . (various references)

Czech

svár (contention, discord, quarrel, strife). (various references)

Finnish

riita (controversy, disagreement, dispute, quarrel, row, squabble, wrangle). (various references)

French

vendetta, se quereller, querelle. (various references)

German

fehde (quarrel, vendetta). (various references)

Greek 

τιμάριο (fee, fief). (various references)

Hebrew 

משטמ�" (animosity, enmity, hatred, rancor), ל� טור איב�" (bear malice), איבת עולם, סכסוך (altercation, argument, conflict, dispute, quarrel, strife). (various references)

Hungarian

viszály (breach, conflict, contention, controversy, discord, discordance, division, faction, hostility, jarring, strife, variance), ellenségeskedés (animosity, enmity, hostility, quarrel). (various references)

Indonesian

percederaan (quarrel). (various references)

Italian

feudo (feoff, fief, manor), faida, contesa (argument, competition, contention, contest, difference, strife). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

背中合わせ (back to back, discord), 仇 (enemy, enmity, evil, foe, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, ruin). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せなかあわせ (back to back, discord), かたき (enemy, enmity, evil, foe, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, rival, ruin), あた (enemy, enmity, evil, foe, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, ruin), あ� (enemy, enmity, evil, foe, frivolous, futile, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, ruin, transient, vain). (various references)

Manx

noidys (animosity, antagonism, enmity, hostility), feoh (abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, disgust, hatred, loathing, phobia). (various references)

Norwegian

feide, strid. (various references)

Pig Latin

eudfay

Portuguese

feudo (fee, feoffee, fief, manor), embrião animal (fog). (various references)

Romanian

fief (feudality, fief), feudã (feoffee, feudality, fief, manor), sfadã (dispute, quarrel, squabble), racilã, gâlceavã (argument, quarrel), duşmãnie de moarte (feoff), discordie (disagreement, discord, discordance), învrãjbire (embroilment). (various references)

Russian 

вражда (antagonism, bad blood, enmity), лен (fief, flax). (various references)

Scottish

folachd (a feud). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

feudalno dobro (fee, fief), zavada (discord, dispute, odds, quarrel), smrtno neprijateljstvo. (various references)

Spanish

feudo (feoff, fief, manor). (various references)

Swedish

släktfejd, fejd (controversy, quarrel, strife). (various references)

Thai

อาฆาต, ความอาฆาต. (various references)

Turkish

tımar (benefice, currying, feudality, fief, grooming, manor, vassalage, vavasour), kavga etmek (altercate, brawl, fight, hassle, have a row with, have a set-to, jar, quarrel, scrap, set to, spar, tangle with, wrangle), kavga (affray, brawl, brawling, broil, bust up, conflict, contention, dispute, fight, fighting, fray, jangle, jar, kick up, miff, odds, punch-up, quarrel, row, rumpus, scrap, scuffle, set to, shooting match, strife, tilt, unpleasantness, wrangle), kan dâvası, düşmanlık (animosity, animus, antagonism, bad blood, dead set, enmity, hatred, hostility, opposition, venom, virulence, war), anlaşmazlık içinde olmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

сваритися (altercate, broil, disagree, part company, quarrel, revile, scold, spat), спадкова ворожнеча, ворогувати (antagonize), антагонізм (antagonism). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mối thù truyền kiếp (blood feud), mối cừu hận, đất phong mối hận thù. (various references)

gera, gerrenos. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "feud": feudal, feudalism, feudalisms, feudalist, feudalistic, feudalists, feudalities, feudality, feudalization, feudalizations, feudalize, feudalized, feudalizes, feudalizing, feudally, feudaries, feudary, feudatories, feudatory, feuded, feuding, feudist, feudists, feuds. (additional references)

Words containing "feud": prefeudal, semifeudal, subinfeudate, subinfeudated, subinfeudates, subinfeudating, subinfeudation, subinfeudations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Feud" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deud, efad, efus, eud, fahd, faid, faud, Faudi, faug, fauld, faum, faup, fauq, Fayum, Fdu, fead, feadz, Feau, fedd, fedu, feedy, feid, Feidr, feld, feruid, feude, feued, feuo, feur, feus, feuv, Feux, fevum, fewd, fezd, fiad, fiux, flud, Fludd, fouad, foud, foufd, frud, fsu, fuad, fudd, fude, fudo, fue, fued, fuev, fyu, Sfeu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: due, fed, feu, fud.

-2 letters: de, ed, ef.

+1 letter: feuds, feued, flued, fudge, fumed, fused, fuzed, unfed.

+2 letters: buffed, cuffed, defund, defuse, defuze, duffel, duffer, duffle, fecund, feudal, feuded, fluked, flumed, fluted, fluxed, fondue, fouled, fubbed, fucked, fuddle, fudged, fudges, fueled, fugged, fugled, fugued, fulled, funded, funked, funned, furled, furred, fussed, futzed, fuzzed, gulfed, huffed, luffed, muffed, poufed, puffed, refund, ruffed, surfed, tufted, turfed.

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