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food

noun
/fuːd//fuːd/UK/fu̟(ː)d/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *fōdô Old English fōda Middle English fode English food From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English fōda (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdō, from Proto-Germanic *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Scots fuid (“food”), Low German föde, vöde (“food”), West Frisian fiedsel (“food”), Dutch voedsel (“food”) Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (fōdeins, “food”), Latin pānis (“bread, food”), Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb). Related to fodder, foster.

  1. derived from *peh₂-✻
  2. inherited from *fōdô✻
  3. inherited from *fōdō✻
  4. inherited from fōda
  5. inherited from fode

Definitions

  1. Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in…

    Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

    • The innkeeper brought them food and drink.

  2. A foodstuff, a type of food.

    • Variation and changes in the trans fatty acid content of different foods, especially in processed foods, further complicate such estimates.

  3. Anything that nourishes or sustains.

    • The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.
    • Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
    • This may prove food to my displeasure.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs.

      • What kind of things that you have. When I find out don't expect me to stop. I'll come for the P's that you stack. And come for the food that you blot.
      • I'm so London, I'm so south / Food in the ends like there ain't no drought / Flipz don't talk like he's got no mouth
      • [Verse 2:Kano]:If you've been shotting in the manor from way back when and you ain't on a kilo ting, I don't wanna hear about cunch and food and tings, man don't do those tings.

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Derived

agri-food, ambient food, angel food, angel-food cake, angel food cake, angel's-food cake, angel's food cake, animal food, antifood, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, baby food, bushfood, cat food, cheese food, Chinese food syndrome, cold food powder, comfort food, convenience food, cottage food operation, deerfood, devil's-food cake, devil's food cake, dog food, dogfood, dry food, dude food, eat one's own dog food, every good boy deserves food, famine food, fast-food, fast food, fast food music, finger food, fish food, food additive, foodaholic, food allergy, food and board, food art, food artist · +166 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for food. 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