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ferde

Pronunciation: [ˈfɛrdɛ]

“ferde” is a Hungarian word. Its 4 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. slanting, inclined, oblique
  2. leaning (to one side), tilted, crooked
  3. sideways (glance)
  4. perverted (view), awkward (behavior)

Etymology

From the fered variant of fürdik (“to bathe”, the word family originally expressing “to turn, revolve, spin”) + -e (obsolete present-participle suffix). Its current meaning goes back to the sense “to turn round, diverge, deviate from straight”, compare fordul.

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