Feud

Pronunciation

• enPR: fyoÍžod, IPA: /fjuːd/
• Rhymes: -uːd

From Middle English fede, feide, *feithe, from Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo ("hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta"), from Proto-Germanic *faihiþō ("hatred, enmity"), from Proto-Indo-European *pAik-, *pAig- ("ill-meaning, wicked"), equivalent to foe + -th. Cognate with Dutch veete ("feud"), German Fehde ("feud, vendetta"), Danish fejde ("feud, enmity, hostility, war"), Swedish fejd ("feud, controversy, quarrel, strife"), and Old French faide, feide ("feud"), ultimately from the same Germanic source. Related to foe, fiend.

Alternative forms

• fede obsolete

Full definition of feud

Noun

1. A state of long-standing mutual hostility.''You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
2. professional wrestling slang A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
3. (obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

Related terms

• blood feud

Verb

1. (intransitive) To carry on a feud.''The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.

From Old French, from Latin feodum.

Alternative forms

• feod

Noun

1. An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service

Synonyms

• fee
• fief

Related terms

• feudal
• feudalism