feoffee
English
Etymology
From feoff + -ee (“(object)”)Category:English terms suffixed with -ee#FEOFFEE.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛfˈiː/, /ˈfɛfi/, /fiːˈfiː/Category:English 2-syllable words#FEOFFEECategory:English 2-syllable words#FEOFFEECategory:English 2-syllable words#FEOFFEECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#FEOFFEE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#FEOFFEEAudio (Southern England): (file)
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#FEOFFEEAudio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iː, -ɛfiCategory:Rhymes:English/iː#FEOFFEECategory:Rhymes:English/iː/2 syllables#FEOFFEECategory:Rhymes:English/ɛfi#FEOFFEECategory:Rhymes:English/ɛfi/2 syllables#FEOFFEE
Noun
feoffee (plural feoffees)Category:English lemmas#FEOFFEECategory:English nouns#FEOFFEECategory:English countable nouns#FEOFFEECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FEOFFEECategory:Pages with entries#FEOFFEECategory:Pages with 1 entry#FEOFFEE
- A vassal holding a fief.
- 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest:
- […] this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lex loci rei sitae.Category:English terms with quotations#FEOFFEE
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Category:Rhymes:English/ɛfi
Category:Rhymes:English/ɛfi/2 syllables