fed

See also: Fed, FED, -fed, and Fed.

English

Pronunciation
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  • Rhymes: -ɛd
  • IPA(key): /fɛd/

Etymology 1

Clipping of federal.

Noun

fed (plural feds)

  1. (US, derogatory, slang) A federal government officer or official, especially a FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, or DEA agent.
    That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!
  2. (London, Toronto, especially MLE, MTE, slang) A police officer.
    • 2022, 15 March, Kill the Bill protester who led ‘f*** the feds’ chant jailed over police car torching (in Metro newspaper)
      Jasmine York led chants of ‘f*** the f***ing feds’ as a crowd marched on Bristol’s Bridewell police station.
  3. (Canada, in the plural) The Canadian federal government.
    Salmon were becoming scarce in the river until the feds stepped in.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Clipping of federation.

Noun

fed (plural feds)

  1. (weightlifting, colloquial) A federation in which powerlifters organize to compete.
Derived terms

Verb

fed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of feed
Derived terms

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse feitr (“fat”), from Proto-Germanic *faitaz.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [feˀð], [feðˀ]

Adjective

fed

  1. fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body), obese
  2. fatty, rich
  3. great, smashing, cool
  4. (of a typeface) bold
  5. (nominally, slang) joint
    at ryge en fed
    to smoke a joint (a "fat one")
Inflection
Inflection of fed
Positive Comparative Superlative
Common singular fed federe fedest2
Neuter singular fedt federe fedest2
Plural fede federe fedest2
Definite attributive1 fede federe fedeste
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse fit.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [feð]

Noun

fed n (singular definite feddet, plural indefinite fed)

  1. skein
  2. clove
Inflection
Declension of fed
neuter
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fed feddet fed feddene
genitive feds feddets feds feddenes

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [feːˀð], [feðˀ]

Verb

fed

  1. imperative of fede

Dutch

Noun

fed f (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of federatie.

Hungarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

According to different sources:

  1. From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pentɜ- (“to shut, cover”).[1][2]
  2. From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pintä- (“to close, cover”). Likely cognate with Finnish pinne and Udmurt поди (poďi).[3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛd]
  • Hyphenation: fed
  • Rhymes: -ɛd

Verb

fed

  1. (transitive) to cover
    Synonyms: borít, lep, takar

Conjugation
conjugation of fed
1st person sg 2nd person sg
informal		 3rd person sg,
2nd p. sg formal		 1st person pl 2nd person pl
informal		 3rd person pl,
2nd p. pl formal
Indica­tive
mood		 Pre­sent Indef. fedek fedsz fed fedünk fedtek fednek
Def. fedem feded fedi fedjük feditek fedik
2nd-p. o. fedlek ―
Past Indef. fedtem fedtél fedett fedtünk fedtetek fedtek
Def. fedtem fedted fedte fedtük fedtétek fedték
2nd-p. o. fedtelek ―
Condi­tional
mood		 Pre­sent Indef. fednék fednél fedne fednénk fednétek fednének
Def. fedném fednéd fedné fednénk
(or fednők)		 fednétek fednék
2nd-p. o. fednélek ―
Sub­junc­tive
mood		 Pre­sent Indef. fedjek fedj or
fedjél		 fedjen fedjünk fedjetek fedjenek
Def. fedjem fedd or
fedjed		 fedje fedjük fedjétek fedjék
2nd-p. o. fedjelek ―
Infinitive fedni fednem fedned fednie fednünk fednetek fedniük
Other nonfinite
verb forms		 Verbal noun Present participle Past participle Future part. Adverbial part. Potential
fedés fedő fedett fedendő fedve fedhet

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions
  • nem fedi a valóságot

See also
  • fedd (“to chide, reprimand, scold”)

References
  1. Entry #744 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
  2. fed in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  3. Starostin's Uralic Database, Entry #754

Further reading
  • fed in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Middle English

Noun

fed

  1. Alternative form of fede

Volapük

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fed/

Noun

fed (nominative plural feds)

  1. federation

Declension
declension of fed
singular plural
nominative fed feds
genitive feda fedas
dative fede fedes
accusative fedi fedis
vocative 1 o fed! o feds!
predicative 2 fedu fedus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms
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