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English

Etymology 1

A phonetic spelling of the letter f (normally spelled ef), the initial letter of the vulgar term fuck. Compare pee.

Alternative forms

• ef

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?f, IPA^(key): /?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Verb

eff (third-person singular simple present effs, present participle effing, simple past and past participle effed)

1. (euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word, but not in the sense "to copulate")

Synonyms

• feck, frak, frig; see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with

Derived terms

• eff all
• eff and blind
• effing
• eff off

Etymology 2

Back-formation from ineffable

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?f, IPA^(key): /?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Verb

eff (third-person singular simple present effs, present participle effing, simple past and past participle effed)

1. (neologism) To put into words; to express.

Estonian

Noun

eff (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter F.

Faroese

Noun

eff n (genitive singular efs, plural eff)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter F.

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??f?]
• Rhymes: -?f?

Noun

eff

1. The name of the Latin-script letter F.

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bet?; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ?, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ?, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

Further reading

• eff in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?/
• Rhymes: -?f?

Noun

eff n (genitive singular effs, nominative plural eff)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter F.

Declension

Võro

Noun

eff (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter F.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Etymology 1

From Middle English evete, from Old English efeta, of unknown origin.

Noun

eft (plural efts)

1. A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus).
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:

     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?

Usage notes

The term red eft is used for the land-dwelling juvenile stage of the Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens).

Derived terms

• red eft

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English eft, from Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Compare after, aft.

Adverb

eft (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Again; afterwards
   • 14^thC, 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.

   • 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, […]

Derived terms

• eftsoons

Translations

Anagrams

• ETF, FET, FTE, TFE, fet, tef

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian eft, Old Saxon eft, Old Norse ept.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eft/

Adverb

eft

1. again
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Beginning of Creation"

2. back (of return or reversal)
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 26:52

3. afterwards

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian eft, Old English eft, Old Norse ept.

Adverb

eft

1. afterwards, again

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English evete, from Old English efete.

Noun

eft

1. newt

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN