see also: EFT
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɛft/
eft (plural efts)
- A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus).
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:
- Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
- 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis:
- 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?
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:
- Russian: трито́н
eft (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Again; afterwards
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales,
- Were I unbounden, all so may I the, / I woulde never eft come in the snare.
- 1384, John Wycliffe, Bible (Wycliffe): Mark, ii, 1,
- And eft he entride in to Cafarnaum, aftir eiyte daies.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:23.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter v], in Le Morte Darthur, book XXI:
- Than syr bedwere retorned ageyn & took the swerde in hys hande / and than hym thought synne and shame to throwe awaye that nobyl swerde / and so efte he hydde the swerde and retorned ageyn and tolde to the kyng that he had ben at the water and done his commaundemente
- 1557, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Fourth Book of Virgil,
- And when they were all gone, / And the dim moon doth eft withhold the light, […]
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales,
- Russian: по́сле
EFT
Noun
eft
- (banking) Initialism of electronic funds transfer
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