English Explanatory Dictionary

fort-da

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The (repeated) disappearance and reappearance of an object, especially as a source of pleasure in child play.

Word forms

fort-da fort/da

Etymology

Borrowed from German fort (“gone”) and da (“there”), exclamations that Sigmund Freud heard his grandson utter while playing, described in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920).

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