fiend
fiend (fēnd)
noun
- an evil spirit; devil
- an inhumanly wicked or cruel person
- ☆ Informal
- a person addicted to some activity, habit, etc. a fresh-air fiend
- a person who is excellent at some activity a fiend at tennis
Etymology: ME fend, feend < OE feond, lit., the one hating, orig. prp. < base of feogan, to hate, akin to Goth fijands < fijan, to hate < IE base *pē(i)-, to harm
the Fiend
Satan
fiend
n.
Converse of object
- become: He was attracted to the occult at an early age, and became a fiend of Aleister Crowley.
- suck: No task on Friday, they've run out of coast, so they go in search of blood sucking fiends.
Adjective modifier
- foul: But even then the foul fiend kept the letter of his compact.
- alien: You expect many things from Brian Molko, the androgynous alien sex fiend who fronts Placebo.
- old: Where are my old fiends and people I knew?
- Honorable: The Honorable Fiend has a nice takeoff of the " Choose Life " format: Choose Labor.
- little: I stood at the bottom of the stairs and shook the can of treats, calling sweetly, " C'mere, you little fiends.
- many: And to visit as much of the world as possible throughout my life time, meeting many new fiends along the way.
Modifies a noun
- radar: There is map, fiend radar, treasure radar and fiend guide.
Noun used with modifier
- dope: For fight fans, the final score: dope fiends, nil; beardy geezers, four.
- sex: BUY Alien Sex Fiend 's Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain?
- Mrs: Nik and Mrs Fiend remain a nefarious nucleus, able to attract the finest in contributing satellites for their ravishing reverberations.
- drug: I found a sense of self that I have longed for all my life, I am not a drug fiend gang banger.
- coke: Hasn't Fox modeled himself on self-confessed former coke fiend George W Bush... ?
- fact: Steve was born and brought up in Kent ( born on a Leap Year Day, as was his mother, fact fiends!
Preposition: in
- shape: Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.
- form: They are evil since the day they were born, fiends in human form.
Preposition: of
- hell: No, traitor, no; the gods will venge these wrongs, The fiends of hell will mark these injuries.
- netherworld: Five hundred years ago Abelard Van Helsing embarked on a secret war against the fiends of the netherworld.
- pit: We'll see it through if all the fiends of the pit were loose upon the moor.
A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadful fiend of gods and men ydrad.
One could forgive the fiend for becoming a torrent, but to become an earthquake was really too much.
So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.
Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
My mother groaned! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping loud Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
Browse dictionary entries near fiend
- fieldwork
- fieldstrip
- fieldstone
- fieldsman
- Fields
- fieldpiece
- fielding average
- Fielding
- fieldfare
- fielder's choice
