fylfot
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of fylfot
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A swastika, especially one with the arms bent in an anticlockwise direction.
“Then look at that jade fylfot charm pawned for one-and-three down at the Basin and the use that could have been made of it in the Kharkov 'ritual murder' trial.”
“Morley: A year and a half ago I stumbled into your gingerbread office, a lost, frightened soul in terrified flight across the great yawning terror of doubt—a human being, in short!—and you chanted some hagridden formulas and danged some fylfots...”
“There was a coffee tray on top of it, and spilt coffee part hid the fylfot design of the tray.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Uncertain, but likely from Middle English fillen (“to fill”) (from Old English fyllan) + fot (“foot”) (from Old English fōt), in reference to its use as a design to be placed at the bottom of stained-glass windows.
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