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eft
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ft/
- Rhymes: -?ft
Etymology 1
From Middle English evete, from Old English efeta, of unknown origin.
Noun
eft (plural efts)
- 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?
- 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 (Notophthalmus viridescens).
Derived terms
- red eft
Translations
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.
- 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
- 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
- again
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Beginning of Creation"
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Beginning of Creation"
- back (of return or reversal)
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 26:52
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
- afterwards
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian eft, Old English eft, Old Norse ept.
Adverb
eft
- afterwards, again
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English evete, from Old English efete.
Noun
eft
- 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
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ewt
English
Etymology
See newt.
Noun
ewt (plural ewts)
- (obsolete) A newt.
Anagrams
- Tew, tew, wet
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