fiendn.

Brit.

/fiːnd/, U.S.

/find/

Forms: Old English–Middle English féond, northern fíond (plural fíend, fýnd, féond, fond, northern fíond, fíondas; dative singular fíend, fýnd, féonde), Middle English feond (plural feond, fiend, feondes), (Middle English feont, fond, southern veond), Middle English–1600s fend(e, (Middle English fent), Middle English–1500s find(e, Middle English–1600s feind(e, (Middle English southern vyend), Middle English–1500s feynd, fynd(e, (Middle English fynt), Middle English–1600s feend(e, (Middle English fende, 1600s feigne), 1700s Scottish fient, fint, Middle English– fiend.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English féond = Old Frisian fîand , Old Saxon fîond , fîund (Middle Dutch vîant , Dutch vijand ), Old High German fîant (Middle High German vîent , vînt , modern German feind ), Old Norse fjánde (Swedish fiende , Danish fjende ), Gothic fijands ; originally the present participle of Old Germanic *fîjêjan (Old English féogean , Old High German fîên , Old Norse fjá , Gothic fijan ) to hate. The formation is parallel with that of friend n. and adj.

†1. An enemy; foe. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [noun]

witherwinc897

foemaneOE

i-foeOE

withersakec960

fiendc975

foeOE

witherlingc1000

unwine1050

unholda1200

andsetec1200

unfriendc1275

un-i-winec1275

adversaryc1350

enemy1362

hatera1382

evil-willinga1400

fedea1400

contraryc1405

inimi1423

overthwarter?c1450

evil-willer1460

Moabitea1461

heavy friend?1518

Satanas1530

adverse1593

malengine1601

distresser1616

viand1616

hostile1838

unfriendly1973

c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. v. 43 Hate þine fiond [c1000 and c1160 feond].

OE Beowulf 2289 Stonc ða æfter stane, stearcheort onfand feondes fotlast.

c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 323 Geflitgeorne & godes fynd.

a1175 Cott. Hom. 231 Bi tweone frend and fend.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 77 Feont þe þuncheð freont.

c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 1124 And þe fende bonde to make to þe.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 19 He ys wel renay þet þet land þet he halt of his Ihorde deþ into þe hond of his uyende.

a. spec. The arch-enemy of humankind; the devil. More fully: fiend of hell, foul fiend, old fiend. †fiend's limb = limb of Satan (see limb n.¹).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [noun] > as enemy

fienda1000

fiendkin1377

under-fienda1616

anti-god1856

the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > as enemy or fiend

witherwinc897

fienda1000

our foe?c1225

adversary1340

enemyc1384

fedea1400

our ghostly enemy1447

our ghostly foea1529

arch-foe1615

arch-traitor1751

arch-enemy1850

a1000 Hymns (Gr.) viii. 25 Ðu fiond geflæmdest.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 294 Hit eac deah wiþ feondes costungum yflum.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 67 Ure fond nefre ne linnen [cease] for to fonden us mid sunnen.

a1225 St. Marher. 1 Ouercomen ant akasten..þe feont.

c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 357 It falliþ ofte..þat a tyraunt and a fendis lyme is put bifore a lyme of Crist.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 18 Fecche þat þe feond cleymeþ.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1056 Caim was þe findes fode.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 14880 Leuer had þei se þe fend of helle Þen him amonges hem to dwelle.

c1460 Play Sacram. 953 I shalle yow blysse to saue yow alle from the fendis blame.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke viii. f. lxxxviij And was caryed of the fende, into wildernes.

?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) l. 396 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 247 What it is to be false and the finde serve.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiii. 8 Beware the foule fiend .

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 233 The Gates..belching outrageous flame..since the Fiend pass'd through.

1709 Brit. Apollo 19–21 Jan. Drugs of more Force..Than e'er was conceiv'd, by the subtil Old Fiend.

1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art I. 73 The fiend is the worst part of the picture.

b. In forms of asseveration or execration: †the fiend on thee!, the foul fiend! Also Scottish fient a (crum, etc.), fient ane; fiend haet: see Additions.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun] > religious oaths (referring to God) > referring to the devil or hell

fienda1568

hangment1825

heck1887

hell1888

Hades1912

hell-fire1939

a1568 A. Scott Poems (1820) 51 Feind a crum of the scho fawis.

a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd ii. ii. 42 in Wks. (1640) III O, the feind, and thee! Gar take them hence.

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 148 The fient ane there but pays his score.

1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs iii, in Poems 10 The fient a pride na pride had he.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor v, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 140 What the foul fiend can detain the Master so long?

3. An evil spirit generally; a demon, devil, or diabolical being; more fully fiend of hell.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun]

evil angel, spiritc950

ghosteOE

uncleanOE

demonOE

devilOE

devilshineOE

groa1225

debleriea1325

devilnessa1400

devilryc1400

sprat?a1475

nicker1481

fiend of hell1509

imp1526

virtue1584

elf1587

succubus1601

blue devilc1616

black man1656

woolsaw1757

buggane1775

bhut1785

demonic1785

pishachi1807

devil-devil1831

skookum1838

taipo1848

lightning bird1870

demonry1883

pisaca1885

mafufunyanas1963

mare1981

OE Guthlac A 421 No þær þa feondas gefeon þorfton.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 33 Ah a þer is waning and graming..and feonda bitinga.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2961 It was on fendes wise wrogt.

c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Prol. 10 Ffreres and feendes been but lyte a-sonder.

c1440 Generydes 2520 But suerly they be fendez.

1509 S. Hawes Conuercyon Swerers (de Worde) 24 To redeme you from the fendes of hell.

1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 7 They yellen as fends do in hell.

1694 F. Bragge Pract. Disc. Parables iv. 152 Revenge..makes a man a fiend incarnate.

1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) lvii. 4 Inflam'd with Rage like Fiends in Hell.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vi, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 38 A frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

1840 T. B. Macaulay Ranke's Hist. in Ess. (1854) 545/1 In the language of Goethe's scoffing fiend.

4. transferred.

a. A person of superhuman wickedness. (Now only with reference to cruelty or malignity.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [noun]

fiendc1220

shrewc1250

quedea1275

felon1340

malfeasorc1380

evil-doer1398

forfeiter1413

pucka1450

malefactor?c1450

wicked-doerc1450

improbe1484

wicked1484

Gomorrheana1529

dunghill1542

felonian1594

naughta1639

black sheep1640

pimp1649

hellicat1816

malfeasant1867

a bad sortc1869

bad seed1954

bloody1960

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > devilish wickedness > devilish or hellish person

fiendc1220

Satan?a1513

dragon1568

Luciferian1647

infernal1748

pandemoniac1923

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > ill will, malevolence > [noun] > person or thing displaying

devilOE

hatelc1175

fiendc1220

hellhoundc1340

foea1393

atterlingc1450

basilisk1477

ill-willerc1500

attercop1508

malign1536

ettercapa1583

demon1591

viper1596

dragon1600

ill-wisher1607

malevolent1609

malevolo1648

c1220 Bestiary 450 For wo so..ðenkeð iuel on his mod fox he is and fend iwis.

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2229 He with his hend Ne drop him nouth, that sor fend.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxiii. 58 Freres folweden þat feonde [Antichrist].

1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 892 Fy on that foull Feind [sc. Mahoun].

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R8^v That cursed man, that cruel feend of hell.

1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems i. 327 Where human fiends on midnight errands walk.

1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 45 He is at times a perfect fiend.

b. †A grisly monster (e.g. a dragon) (obsolete). Also applied to baleful or destructive influences or agencies personified.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful influence > personification of

fiendc1540

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > dragon

drakea1000

firedrakeOE

wormOE

adderOE

dragona1225

fire dragonc1475

fiendc1540

fenne1567

pen-dragon1601

water dragon1689

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 597 It is playnly your purpos..With suche fyndes to fight.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A6 Whose corage when the feend [sc. the monster Errour] perceiud to shrinke.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 185 He calls for famine, and the meagre fiend Blows mildew from between his shrivel'd lips.

c. Applied with jocular hyperbole to a person or agency causing mischief or annoyance. Often with qualifying word or phrase.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > playful mischievousness > mischievous person > [noun]

wait-scathe1481

wag-pastya1556

mischief1586

rogue1593

devil1600

villain1609

fiend1621

imp1633

sprite1684

torment1785

scapegrace1809

bad hat1877

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. ii. iv. 590 If you doe but stirre abroad, these fiends [sc. women; transl. umbræ in Petronius] are ready to meet you at euery turne.

1807 Salmagundi 15 Oct. 342 It is that fiend Politics, Asem—that baneful fiend, which bewildereth every brain.

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1871) 162 This sorcery which the fiend of technical imitation weaves about his victims.

1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms (at cited word) The free lunch fiend..is one who makes a meal off what is really provided as a snack. He pays for a drink, but shamefacedly manages in this way to get something more than his money's worth.

a1896 Mod. The autograph-fiend; the cyclist-fiend; the interviewer-fiend; the newsboy-fiend; the organ-fiend.

1896 Sun (N.Y.) Dec. ‘A dope fiend’... A victim of the opium habit.

1904 Philadelphia Evening Tel. 25 July 6 The camera fiend is after him, hot foot.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 812/1 Fiend…An opium fiend…he is a fiend in mathematics; a botany fiend.

1925 H. G. Wells Christina Alberta's Father i. vi. 156 Artists' models and drug-fiends.

1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 39 Before the war we had our fresh air fiends..and the hatless brigade.

1929 R. Graves Good-bye to all That xxviii. 377 He had been upset that morning by a letter from an autograph-fiend.

1956 M. Swan Paradise Garden i. i. 7 A neighbour a small-boat fiend.

1962 N. Marsh Hand in Glove v. 196 I'm a bit of a camera-fiend myself.

d. A kind of firework.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > types of

fire sword1482

firedrake1608

fiend1634

fire club1634

fire lance1634

fire-target1634

saucisson1634

fire-trunk1639

runner1647

fire pole1708

fire fountain1729

fire-flyer1740

line-rocket1740

devil1742

fire tree1749

Grecian fire1774

jet1774

fire pan1799

metamorphose1818

Saxon1839

lightning paper1866

asteroid1875

brilliant1875

pearl1884

1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art ii. 75 How to make fiends, or fearefull apparitions.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

fiend-breed adj.

ΚΠ

1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. xiii. 55 Brute..suppressed so the state Of all the Feend-bread Albinests.

fiend-face n.

ΚΠ

1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 56 Horrified, hideous, frank fiend-faces!

C2. Objective.

fiend-compelling adj.

ΚΠ

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. viii. ix. 114 Solomon achieved his fiend-compelling wonders by its aid.

fiend-fraying adj.

ΚΠ

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xviii. 69 The Fiend-fraying Holy-water.

C3. Instrumental.

fiend-begotten adj.

ΚΠ

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 149 Aught that..Yon fiend-begotten monk can tell.

fiend-drawn adj.

ΚΠ

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 25 As one who checks a fiend-drawn charioteer.

fiend-tenanted adj.

ΚΠ

1892 Daily News 21 Sept. 5/5 Who was grasping his fiend-tenanted fiddle so firmly by the throat.

fiend-tied adj.

ΚΠ

1770 J. Armstrong Forced Marriage v. iv, in Misc. II. 80 My quick revenge Shall burst this fiend-tied most unnatural knot.

C4. Originative.

fiend-born adj.

ΚΠ

1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 289 Brangwain was there..And fiend-born Merlin's gramarye.

C5. Parasynthetic.

fiend-hearted adj.

ΚΠ

1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Fiendhearted, having a very wicked or depraved heart.

Draft additions March 2017

†

fiend haet n. [ < fiend n. + Scots hae, optative subjunctive of have v. + it pron.; compare earlier devil hae't n. at devil n. Phrases 1e(c) and also haet n.] Scottish Obsolete not a whit; very little; nothing at all; none at all; cf. devil hae't n. at devil n. Phrases 1e(c).In quot. 1827 as adj.: not any.

ΚΠ

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1956) II. 158 What's siller for? Fiend haet awa, But Gowden playfair, that may please.

1786 R. Burns Poems 18 For thae frank, rantan, ramblan billies, Fient haet o' them's ill hearted fellows.

1822 A. Balfour Farmers' Three Daughters I. xi. 253 There's your uncle Peter took a poor primpet-up dally, wi' feant hae't but the duds on her back.

1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 133 Fient haet ae button would keep sticket.

1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin vii. 69 Feint head was there in it but twa gude barrowfu's o' whunstanes.

1890 J. Coghill Poems, Songs, & Sonnets 29 Fient haet o't's true.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	fiend
释义	fiendn. Brit. /fiːnd/, U.S. /find/ Forms: Old English–Middle English féond, northern fíond (plural fíend, fýnd, féond, fond, northern fíond, fíondas; dative singular fíend, fýnd, féonde), Middle English feond (plural feond, fiend, feondes), (Middle English feont, fond, southern veond), Middle English–1600s fend(e, (Middle English fent), Middle English–1500s find(e, Middle English–1600s feind(e, (Middle English southern vyend), Middle English–1500s feynd, fynd(e, (Middle English fynt), Middle English–1600s feend(e, (Middle English fende, 1600s feigne), 1700s Scottish fient, fint, Middle English– fiend. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English féond = Old Frisian fîand , Old Saxon fîond , fîund (Middle Dutch vîant , Dutch vijand ), Old High German fîant (Middle High German vîent , vînt , modern German feind ), Old Norse fjánde (Swedish fiende , Danish fjende ), Gothic fijands ; originally the present participle of Old Germanic fîjêjan (Old English féogean* , Old High German fîên , Old Norse fjá , Gothic fijan ) to hate. The formation is parallel with that of friend n. and adj. †1. An enemy; foe. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [noun] witherwinc897 foemaneOE i-foeOE withersakec960 fiendc975 foeOE witherlingc1000 unwine1050 unholda1200 andsetec1200 unfriendc1275 un-i-winec1275 adversaryc1350 enemy1362 hatera1382 evil-willinga1400 fedea1400 contraryc1405 inimi1423 overthwarter?c1450 evil-willer1460 Moabitea1461 heavy friend?1518 Satanas1530 adverse1593 malengine1601 distresser1616 viand1616 hostile1838 unfriendly1973 c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. v. 43 Hate þine fiond [c1000 and c1160 feond]. OE Beowulf 2289 Stonc ða æfter stane, stearcheort onfand feondes fotlast. c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 323 Geflitgeorne & godes fynd. a1175 Cott. Hom. 231 Bi tweone frend and fend. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 77 Feont þe þuncheð freont. c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 1124 And þe fende bonde to make to þe. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 19 He ys wel renay þet þet land þet he halt of his Ihorde deþ into þe hond of his uyende. 2. a. spec. The arch-enemy of humankind; the devil. More fully: fiend of hell, foul fiend, old fiend. †fiend's limb = limb of Satan (see limb n.¹). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [noun] > as enemy fienda1000 fiendkin1377 under-fienda1616 anti-god1856 the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > as enemy or fiend witherwinc897 fienda1000 our foe?c1225 adversary1340 enemyc1384 fedea1400 our ghostly enemy1447 our ghostly foea1529 arch-foe1615 arch-traitor1751 arch-enemy1850 a1000 Hymns (Gr.) viii. 25 Ðu fiond geflæmdest. c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 294 Hit eac deah wiþ feondes costungum yflum. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 67 Ure fond nefre ne linnen [cease] for to fonden us mid sunnen. a1225 St. Marher. 1 Ouercomen ant akasten..þe feont. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 357 It falliþ ofte..þat a tyraunt and a fendis lyme is put bifore a lyme of Crist. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 18 Fecche þat þe feond cleymeþ. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1056 Caim was þe findes fode. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 14880 Leuer had þei se þe fend of helle Þen him amonges hem to dwelle. c1460 Play Sacram. 953 I shalle yow blysse to saue yow alle from the fendis blame. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke viii. f. lxxxviij And was caryed of the fende, into wildernes. ?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) l. 396 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 247 What it is to be false and the finde serve. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiii. 8 Beware the foule fiend . View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 233 The Gates..belching outrageous flame..since the Fiend pass'd through. View more context for this quotation 1709 Brit. Apollo 19–21 Jan. Drugs of more Force..Than e'er was conceiv'd, by the subtil Old Fiend. 1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art I. 73 The fiend is the worst part of the picture. b. In forms of asseveration or execration: †the fiend on thee!, the foul fiend! Also Scottish fient a (crum, etc.), fient ane; fiend haet: see Additions. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun] > religious oaths (referring to God) > referring to the devil or hell fienda1568 hangment1825 heck1887 hell1888 Hades1912 hell-fire1939 a1568 A. Scott Poems (1820) 51 Feind a crum of the scho fawis. a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd ii. ii. 42 in Wks. (1640) III O, the feind, and thee! Gar take them hence. View more context for this quotation a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 148 The fient ane there but pays his score. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs iii, in Poems 10 The fient a pride na pride had he. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor v, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 140 What the foul fiend can detain the Master so long? 3. An evil spirit generally; a demon, devil, or diabolical being; more fully fiend of hell. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] evil angel, spiritc950 ghosteOE uncleanOE demonOE devilOE devilshineOE groa1225 debleriea1325 devilnessa1400 devilryc1400 sprat?a1475 nicker1481 fiend of hell1509 imp1526 virtue1584 elf1587 succubus1601 blue devilc1616 black man1656 woolsaw1757 buggane1775 bhut1785 demonic1785 pishachi1807 devil-devil1831 skookum1838 taipo1848 lightning bird1870 demonry1883 pisaca1885 mafufunyanas1963 mare1981 OE Guthlac A 421 No þær þa feondas gefeon þorfton. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 33 Ah a þer is waning and graming..and feonda bitinga. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2961 It was on fendes wise wrogt. c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Prol. 10 Ffreres and feendes been but lyte a-sonder. c1440 Generydes 2520 But suerly they be fendez. 1509 S. Hawes Conuercyon Swerers (de Worde) 24 To redeme you from the fendes of hell. 1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 7 They yellen as fends do in hell. 1694 F. Bragge Pract. Disc. Parables iv. 152 Revenge..makes a man a fiend incarnate. 1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) lvii. 4 Inflam'd with Rage like Fiends in Hell. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vi, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 38 A frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. 1840 T. B. Macaulay Ranke's Hist. in Ess. (1854) 545/1 In the language of Goethe's scoffing fiend. 4. transferred. a. A person of superhuman wickedness. (Now only with reference to cruelty or malignity.) ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [noun] fiendc1220 shrewc1250 quedea1275 felon1340 malfeasorc1380 evil-doer1398 forfeiter1413 pucka1450 malefactor?c1450 wicked-doerc1450 improbe1484 wicked1484 Gomorrheana1529 dunghill1542 felonian1594 naughta1639 black sheep1640 pimp1649 hellicat1816 malfeasant1867 a bad sortc1869 bad seed1954 bloody1960 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > devilish wickedness > devilish or hellish person fiendc1220 Satan?a1513 dragon1568 Luciferian1647 infernal1748 pandemoniac1923 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > ill will, malevolence > [noun] > person or thing displaying devilOE hatelc1175 fiendc1220 hellhoundc1340 foea1393 atterlingc1450 basilisk1477 ill-willerc1500 attercop1508 malign1536 ettercapa1583 demon1591 viper1596 dragon1600 ill-wisher1607 malevolent1609 malevolo1648 c1220 Bestiary 450 For wo so..ðenkeð iuel on his mod fox he is and fend iwis. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2229 He with his hend Ne drop him nouth, that sor fend. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxiii. 58 Freres folweden þat feonde [Antichrist]. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 892 Fy on that foull Feind [sc. Mahoun]. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R8^v That cursed man, that cruel feend of hell. 1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems i. 327 Where human fiends on midnight errands walk. 1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 45 He is at times a perfect fiend. b. †A grisly monster (e.g. a dragon) (obsolete). Also applied to baleful or destructive influences or agencies personified. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful influence > personification of fiendc1540 the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > dragon drakea1000 firedrakeOE wormOE adderOE dragona1225 fire dragonc1475 fiendc1540 fenne1567 pen-dragon1601 water dragon1689 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 597 It is playnly your purpos..With suche fyndes to fight. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A6 Whose corage when the feend [sc. the monster Errour] perceiud to shrinke. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 185 He calls for famine, and the meagre fiend Blows mildew from between his shrivel'd lips. c. Applied with jocular hyperbole to a person or agency causing mischief or annoyance. Often with qualifying word or phrase. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > playful mischievousness > mischievous person > [noun] wait-scathe1481 wag-pastya1556 mischief1586 rogue1593 devil1600 villain1609 fiend1621 imp1633 sprite1684 torment1785 scapegrace1809 bad hat1877 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. ii. iv. 590 If you doe but stirre abroad, these fiends [sc. women; transl. umbræ in Petronius] are ready to meet you at euery turne. 1807 Salmagundi 15 Oct. 342 It is that fiend Politics, Asem—that baneful fiend, which bewildereth every brain. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1871) 162 This sorcery which the fiend of technical imitation weaves about his victims. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms (at cited word) The free lunch fiend..is one who makes a meal off what is really provided as a snack. He pays for a drink, but shamefacedly manages in this way to get something more than his money's worth. a1896 Mod. The autograph-fiend; the cyclist-fiend; the interviewer-fiend; the newsboy-fiend; the organ-fiend. 1896 Sun (N.Y.) Dec. ‘A dope fiend’... A victim of the opium habit. 1904 Philadelphia Evening Tel. 25 July 6 The camera fiend is after him, hot foot. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 812/1 Fiend…An opium fiend…he is a fiend in mathematics; a botany fiend. 1925 H. G. Wells Christina Alberta's Father i. vi. 156 Artists' models and drug-fiends. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 39 Before the war we had our fresh air fiends..and the hatless brigade. 1929 R. Graves Good-bye to all That xxviii. 377 He had been upset that morning by a letter from an autograph-fiend. 1956 M. Swan Paradise Garden i. i. 7 A neighbour a small-boat fiend. 1962 N. Marsh Hand in Glove v. 196 I'm a bit of a camera-fiend myself. d. A kind of firework. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > types of fire sword1482 firedrake1608 fiend1634 fire club1634 fire lance1634 fire-target1634 saucisson1634 fire-trunk1639 runner1647 fire pole1708 fire fountain1729 fire-flyer1740 line-rocket1740 devil1742 fire tree1749 Grecian fire1774 jet1774 fire pan1799 metamorphose1818 Saxon1839 lightning paper1866 asteroid1875 brilliant1875 pearl1884 1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art ii. 75 How to make fiends, or fearefull apparitions. Compounds C1. General attributive. fiend-breed adj. ΚΠ 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. xiii. 55 Brute..suppressed so the state Of all the Feend-bread Albinests. fiend-face n. ΚΠ 1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 56 Horrified, hideous, frank fiend-faces! C2. Objective. fiend-compelling adj. ΚΠ 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. viii. ix. 114 Solomon achieved his fiend-compelling wonders by its aid. fiend-fraying adj. ΚΠ 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xviii. 69 The Fiend-fraying Holy-water. C3. Instrumental. fiend-begotten adj. ΚΠ 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 149 Aught that..Yon fiend-begotten monk can tell. fiend-drawn adj. ΚΠ 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 25 As one who checks a fiend-drawn charioteer. fiend-tenanted adj. ΚΠ 1892 Daily News 21 Sept. 5/5 Who was grasping his fiend-tenanted fiddle so firmly by the throat. fiend-tied adj. ΚΠ 1770 J. Armstrong Forced Marriage v. iv, in Misc. II. 80 My quick revenge Shall burst this fiend-tied most unnatural knot. C4. Originative. fiend-born adj. ΚΠ 1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 289 Brangwain was there..And fiend-born Merlin's gramarye. C5. Parasynthetic. fiend-hearted adj. ΚΠ 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Fiendhearted, having a very wicked or depraved heart. Draft additions March 2017 † fiend haet n. [ < fiend n. + Scots hae, optative subjunctive of have v. + it pron.; compare earlier devil hae't n. at devil n. Phrases 1e(c) and also haet n.] Scottish Obsolete not a whit; very little; nothing at all; none at all; cf. devil hae't n. at devil n. Phrases 1e(c).In quot. 1827 as adj.: not any. ΚΠ a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1956) II. 158 What's siller for? Fiend haet awa, But Gowden playfair, that may please. 1786 R. Burns Poems 18 For thae frank, rantan, ramblan billies, Fient haet o' them's ill hearted fellows. 1822 A. Balfour Farmers' Three Daughters I. xi. 253 There's your uncle Peter took a poor primpet-up dally, wi' feant hae't but the duds on her back. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 133 Fient haet ae button would keep sticket. 1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin vii. 69 Feint head was there in it but twa gude barrowfu's o' whunstanes. 1890 J. Coghill Poems, Songs, & Sonnets 29 Fient haet o't's true. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). fiendv. Brit. /fiːnd/, U.S. /find/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: fiend n. Etymology: < fiend n.; with the sense compare dope-fiend n. at dope n. Compounds 2, sex fiend n. at sex n.¹ Compounds 1, etc. slang (originally and chiefly in the language of rap and hip-hop). intransitive. To have a strong desire or craving for. ΚΠ 1988 ‘Eric B.’ & ‘Rakim’ Microphone Fiend (song) in Hip-hop & Rap (2003) 268 I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine, But I don't need a cigarette. 1995 Represent Apr.–May (verso front cover) If you fiend for the West Coast smooth suit, ‘Safe + Sound’ is your meal ticket. 2004 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 136 Those who have been sexually possessed will understand... When you're fiending for it, you're fiending for it. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c975v.1988
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