friend-foe
noun
A person who is both a friend and enemy; an enemy who appears to be a friend.
adjective
That is potentially either a friend or an enemy.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in William Warner (d. 1609), poet and lawyer.
- wireless silence
- wireless station
- wireless telegraph
- wireless telegraphy
- wireless telephone
- wireless telephony
- wireless wave
- wireline
- wireman
- wire mark
- wire micrometer
- wire money
- wire nail
- wire nut
- wirephoto
- wire photograph
- wire pliers
- wire-pull
- wirepuller
- wirepulling
- wire puzzle
- wirer
- wire recorder
- wire recording
- wire report