FOAFn.

Brit.

/fəʊf/, U.S.

/foʊf/

Forms: 1900s– FOAF, 1900s– FoaF, 1900s– foaf.

Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English friend of a friend.

Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of friend of a friend.

1. A friend of a friend, esp. a person not personally known to the speaker who is cited as the source or subject of an urban myth.

ΚΠ

1978 R. Dale Tumour in Whale 13 ‘A friend of a friend (foaf) saw..’ means that it [sc. a story] has been reported from several quarters, that its provenance is shady.

1984 J. H. Brunvand Choking Doberman 51 Those who accept urban legends as true, then, have for verification not personal experience..but only an unnamed, elusive, but somehow readily trusted anonymous individual—a ‘friend of a friend’ (f-o-a-f)—or, we might say, a ‘foaf’.

1998 R. A. Wilson Everything is under Control (1999) 331 Investigations never do succeed in finding the FOAF who started any of these yarns.

2000 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 23 June a3 In urban myths it is always to a FOAF that bad things happen.

2. A story attributed to an unverifiable source; an urban myth.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > a mythical story or myth > type of

creation story1860

creation myth1863

sun myth1865

solar myth1870

nature myth1871

just-so story1897

monomyth1929

FOAF1989

1989 Re: Largest Penalty, was just an Average Round in rec.games.bridge (Usenet newsgroup) 13 May No kidding, this is not a FOAF or exaggerated, it actually happened to me.

1994 Fortean Times Oct. 18/1 This detail—trivial to some and gruesome to others—may mean the difference between a ‘foaf’ and a true story.

2000 Guardian (Nexis) 20 July (Online section) 4 Urban legends..are also known as ‘foafs’.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	foaf
释义	FOAFn. Brit. /fəʊf/, U.S. /foʊf/ Forms: 1900s– FOAF, 1900s– FoaF, 1900s– foaf. Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English friend of a friend. Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of friend of a friend. 1. A friend of a friend, esp. a person not personally known to the speaker who is cited as the source or subject of an urban myth. ΚΠ 1978 R. Dale Tumour in Whale 13 ‘A friend of a friend (foaf) saw..’ means that it [sc. a story] has been reported from several quarters, that its provenance is shady. 1984 J. H. Brunvand Choking Doberman 51 Those who accept urban legends as true, then, have for verification not personal experience..but only an unnamed, elusive, but somehow readily trusted anonymous individual—a ‘friend of a friend’ (f-o-a-f)—or, we might say, a ‘foaf’. 1998 R. A. Wilson Everything is under Control (1999) 331 Investigations never do succeed in finding the FOAF who started any of these yarns. 2000 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 23 June a3 In urban myths it is always to a FOAF that bad things happen. 2. A story attributed to an unverifiable source; an urban myth. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > a mythical story or myth > type of creation story1860 creation myth1863 sun myth1865 solar myth1870 nature myth1871 just-so story1897 monomyth1929 FOAF1989 1989 Re: Largest Penalty, was just an Average Round in rec.games.bridge (Usenet newsgroup) 13 May No kidding, this is not a FOAF or exaggerated, it actually happened to me. 1994 Fortean Times Oct. 18/1 This detail—trivial to some and gruesome to others—may mean the difference between a ‘foaf’ and a true story. 2000 Guardian (Nexis) 20 July (Online section) 4 Urban legends..are also known as ‘foafs’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1978
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