English Explanatory Dictionary

underfong

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To seduce, entrap; surround, overcome.

Word forms

underfong underfongs underfonging underfonged

Etymology

From Middle English underfongen, underfangen, from Old English underfōn (“to receive, undertake, accept”), from Proto-West Germanic *underfą̄han (“to receive, undertake”). Cognate with Dutch ondervangen, German unterfangen.

Related words

fang fangle underfo
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