different between foe vs galloper

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fo?/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: faux

Etymology 1

From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier ifo (“foe”), from Old English ?ef?h (“enemy”), from f?h (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian f?ch (“punishable”), Middle High German gev?ch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peik/k?- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pìktas (“evil”)).

Adjective

foe

1. (obsolete) Hostile.
   • , vol.1, ch.23:

     he, I say, could passe into Affrike onely with two simple ships or small barkes, to commit himselfe in a strange and foe countrie, to engage his person, under the power of a barbarous King […].

Translations

Noun

foe (plural foes)

1. An enemy.

Synonyms

• (enemy): adversary, enemy, opponent.

Antonyms

• (enemy): ally, friend

Derived terms

• befoe

Translations

Etymology 2

Acronym of fifty-one ergs., due to the value of a "foe", 1 foe = 10⁵¹ergs; coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.

Noun

foe (plural foes)

1. A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.

Synonyms

• bethe (B)

Anagrams

• EFO, EOF, OEF

Middle English

Noun

foe

1. Alternative form of fo

Portuguese

Verb

foe

1. Obsolete spelling of foi

English

Etymology

gallop +? -er

Noun

galloper (plural gallopers)

1. One who gallops.
   • a. 1898, Rudyard Kipling, "The Drums of the Fore and Aft"

     The lancers chafing in the right gorge had thrice dispatched their only subaltern as galloper to report on the progress of affairs.

2. A racehorse.
3. A carousel or roundabout (especially in the plural)
4. (military) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)

5. (Australia) The Chinamanfish, a type of snapper

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