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单词 backfriend
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backfriendn.

/ˈbakˌfrɛnd/
Etymology: < back n.1 or back adv. Perhaps originally a friend who ‘kept back,’ and did not come forward to assist, and so was no real friend.
1. A pretended or false friend; an enemy who pretends friendship; a secret or unavowed enemy. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [noun] > deadly enemy > enemy who pretends friendship
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1472 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 449 I harde somwhatt by hym off a bakk freende off yowrys.
1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes 75 Corrupte and unpure Ayre is unto all age a greate backefriende and enemie.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xv. 628/1 Westmerland thought it safest to checke the Scots as the neerer and continuall backe-friends.
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iv. 180 As S. Jerome was an open enemy to this doctrine, so Eusebius was a back friend to it.
1725 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 108 My back friend, Mr. Bruce, has now another and heavier author to deal with than I, Bishop Burnet.
1827 R. Southey Life (1850) V. 321 But I have had backfriends..as well as enemies.
2. A friend who stands at one's back, a backer.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [noun] > that which or one who supports > one who
uptakera1340
holder-upc1374
upbearer1387
bearera1398
undernimmera1400
weighera1400
upholderc1403
ally1406
allya1431
godfather?1541
propper1549
tower of strength1549
backer1583
moyener?1591
backfriend1599
stayer1611
suppositor1629
susceptor1652
standby1712
bottle holder1788
understander1875
buddy1893
anchorman1895
backer-up1921
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 49 Faithfull confederates and backe-friends.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. vi. 123 I had, in case of the worst, a stout back-friend in this uncle of mine.
3. (dialect) A hangnail.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > disorders of nails > [noun]
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flaw1574
liverage1598
pterygium1601
hangnail1678
mormal1685
agnail1737
onychia1814
defluvium1817
onychogryphosis1833
liver-sick1836
ingrowing1852
backfriend1864
onychomycosis1865
white lie1899
koilonychia1902
1864 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 5 25/1 The troublesome splinters of skin which are often formed near the roots of the nails are called stepmother's blessings..back-friends.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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