eft

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"I say you are an eft, and therefore you are, and not fit food for gentlefolk like me and my children.

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  1. noun An immature newt, especially the reddish-orange terrestrial form of a North American species, Notophthalmus viridescens.

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  • Eventually, forms such as evete would shift back to the original usage of f in the modern word eft, but by then the word had also been corrupted into forms such as euete and ewt, which in combination with the indefinite particle an, led an ewt to become a newt.Source: various entries.
  • Id quod tuis poftea aufpicijs (vir honoratifsime) felicius fufceptum eft quibus Virginia nobis patefacta eft, præefecto clafsis Richardo Grinuil nobili equite, quam diligentifsime luftrauit defcripfit Thomæ Hariotus In the English edition of Robert Hues' work, London, 1638, this very interesting but somewhat irrelevant passage appears as follows Among whom, the first that adventured on the discovery of these parts, were, Sir Hugh Willoughby, and Richard Chanceler: after them, Stephen Borough. —  Thomas Hariot
  • We're all aware that in the end the only thing ;eft is our memories, but how do you preserve them when one part of you decides to die before the rest? —  Omni: March 1994
  • Within the first half hour they counted 20 dead spotted salamanders and 18 live ones, eight dead and four live wood frogs, seven dead peepers and one live one, four dead and one live eft or immature newt and 23 cars, said Steve Parren, a member of the Monkton Planning Commissioner, who works for the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. —  WSOCTV.com - Local News
  • But John Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. (the coralline Ellis), asserts, in a letter to the Royal Society, dated June 5th, 1766, in his account of the mud inguana_, an amphibious biped from South Carolina, that the water-eft, or newt, is only the larva of the land-eft, as tadpoles are of frogs. —  The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
 

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  1. Middle English evete, from Old English efeta.

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  1. Middle English efte, eefte, more commonly evete, euete, later ewte, and with the n of the indefinite art. an adhering, nefte, newte, now usually newt, q. v. Eft, though now only provincial, is strictly the correct form.
  2. Middle English eft, æft, efte, from Anglo-Saxon eft, æft = Old Saxon eft = OFries. eft, afterward, again: see after.
 

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