All 7 Uses of
feud
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Why, nothing—only it's on account of the feud.
Chpt 18feud = a bitter, long-standing fight
- What's a feud?
Chpt 18
- Don't you know what a feud is?
Chpt 18
- "Well," says Buck, "a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills HIM; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the COUSINS chip in—and by and by everybody's killed off,"
Chpt 18
- —and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud.
Chpt 18
- I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds,
Chpt 18 *feuds = bitter, long-standing fights
- I'd see him standing my watch on top of his'n, 'stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times;
Chpt 31feud = a bitter, long-standing fight
Definition:
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(feud) bitter hostile argument between two parties -- typically long-standing between families or tribes with occasional incidents of violenceeditor's notes: Sometimes the term blood feud is used to reference a feud between families.