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fiendly

adj

Etymology

From Middle English fendly, feendly (“hostile, devilish”), from Old English fēondliċ (“hostile”), corresponding to fiend + -ly. Cognate with Dutch vijandelijk (“hostile”), German feindlich (“hostile”), Danish fjendtlig (“hostile”), Swedish fiendtlig, fientlig (“hostile”).

  1. inherited from fēondliċ — “hostile”
  2. inherited from fendly

Definitions

  1. Hostile.

  2. Like a fiend

    Like a fiend; devilish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fiendly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA