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▪ I. † fed, fede, a. and n. Obs.
Also fedd, feid, pl. fede, -es, -is.
[app. repr. OE. *ᵹefǽᵹed (weak decl. *ᵹefǽᵹda, -e), pa. pple. of ᵹefǽᵹan (early ME. ifæien, iveien to set at variance: see i-fay v.), f. ᵹefá: see foe.]
A. adj. At variance, hostile.
c1250To Fortune in Old Eng. Misc. 86 Wyþ freomen þu art ferly feid. a1300Cursor M. 8535 (Cott.) Cartage..to rome was euer fede.
B. n. An enemy; spec. the fiend, devil.
a1300Cursor M. 7935 (Cott.) ‘Þat man,’ he said, ‘es godds fed.’ Ibid. 12948 (Gött.) Þan said þe lauerd to þe fede ‘Man mai noght liue allane wid brede’. Ibid. 23746 (Cott.) Again vr fedes thrin to strijf, vr flexs, þis werld, and þe warlau.
▪ II. fed
obs. form of feud n.1, enmity.
▪ III. fed, ppl. a.|fɛd|
[Pa. pple. of feed v.]
In various senses of the vb.a. Supplied with food; hence, nourished; lit. and fig. Chiefly with adv. prefixed, as highly, well fed; also in comb. with prefixed n., as in bacon-fed, bounty-fed, grass-fed, rump-fed, stall-fed, etc. (see the ns.). †b. = fatted (obs.).
a.1483Cath. Angl. 124/2 Fedd, pastus, cibatus. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 389 One of the feeid and fed seruants of y⊇ Pope. 1601Shakes. All's Well ii. ii. 3, I will shew my selfe highly fed. Ibid. ii. iv. 39 A good knaue ifaith, and well fed. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 378 His fed imagination..is so soone made to sterue againe. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 235 A clear dashing stream, not ice fed, but mere fountain and rainfall. 1892R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (ed. 2) 140 To the cod and the corpse-fed conger-eel.
b.1535Coverdale Luke xv. 27 Thy father hath slayne a fed calfe because he hath receaued him safe and sounde. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 39 The fox follouit the fed geise. a1623W. Pemble Worthy Rec. Lord's Supper (1628) 61 The blood of bullocks, and fat of fed beasts.
▪ IV. fed, pa. pple.
Slang phr. to be fed up: to be surfeited or disgusted (with), bored or tired to breaking-point. So fed-up a. Also with emphasizing expressions, as fed to the (back) teeth, fed to death. Also without up.[1882F. Arnold Three-Cornered Essays (1886) 4 Fed up to the eyelids, it is no care to him that there are other people all otherwise than so well off.] 1900Westm. Gaz. 13 Nov. 2/3 It may be quite true that, to use an expression often heard in South Africa just now, the men are ‘fed up’ with the war. 1906Daily Chron. 22 Mar. 9/5, I am about ‘fed-up’ over this motor-car. 1914Even. News 19 Sept. 4/1 We have also seen hundreds of German prisoners, mostly looking ‘fed up’. 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Action Front 32 ‘I'm just about fed up with him,’ said Gunner Donovan bitterly. 1921W. S. Maugham Circle iii. 100, I should be fed to the teeth with you sometimes. 1921Wodehouse Indiscretions of Archie i. 11 I've never done anything much in England, and I fancy the family were getting a bit fed. 1922A. S. M. Hutchinson This Freedom iv. iv. 293 Oh, those sickening scarves and things, they were eternally knitting, that wasn't war work. It was fun at first. They were fed to death with doing them now. 1924A. J. Small Frozen Gold iii. 78 He had the air of a man who was utterly and finally fed-up with the eternal effort of keeping the upper hand of the worst. 1928Strand Mag. July 4 Her aspect was that of a girl who is fed to the teeth. 1929D. G. Mackail How Amusing 342 It made me feel pretty fed with the old boy. 1946P. Larkin Jill 30 I'm getting definitely fed..with them all. 1955Times 15 June 9/2 A major relief to a frankly fed-up and frustrated nation. 1958M. Allingham Hide my Eyes x. 99 She's been getting fed to the teeth. Edna has been pestering her. 1961‘G. Hythe’ Death of Scapegoat i. iii. 87 The skipper's gettin' fed to the back teeth. 1963I. Fleming On H.M. Secret Service ii. 21 He was fed to the teeth with chasing the ghost of Blofeld.
Hence fed-upness (stress variable).
1928D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club iii. 22 Job gone—health gone—no money..general fedupness. 1961Times 4 May 13/4 A state of acute ‘browned-offness’ or ‘fed-upness’. |