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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

Alternative forms

• tef

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ?? (??ff).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?f/

Noun

teff (countable and uncountable, plural teffs)

1. A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
2. The fine grain of this plant.

Coordinate terms

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

See also

• injera

Translations

Further reading

• teff on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “teff”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Italian

Etymology

From Amharic ?? (??ff).

Noun

teff m (invariable)

1. teff

Spanish

Noun

teff m (plural teffs)

1. teff