eft
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 3
/ɛft/
Definition of eft
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A newt, especially a smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus), of Europe.
“Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].”
“How did he like it when the live creatures Tickled and toused and browsed him all over, And worm, slug, eft, with serious features Came in, each one, for his right of trover?”
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noun
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A newt, especially a smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus), of Europe.
“Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].”
“How did he like it when the live creatures Tickled and toused and browsed him all over, And worm, slug, eft, with serious features Came in, each one, for his right of trover?”
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of electronic funds transfer.
adv
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(not-comparable, obsolete)Again; afterwards
“And when they were all gone, / And the dim moon doth eft withhold the light,[…]”
name
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Emotional Freedom Techniques (“a form of counselling based on various alternative medicine practices”).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English evete, from Old English efete, of unknown origin.
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