Meanings
- A surname: compare Fforde.
[...] his 'crime' was discovered, was summoned to see the headmaster, Sir Arthur fforde. It could potentially have been a flogging offence, but the headmaster, bizarrely, offered him a glass of nonalcoholic sherry. It no doubt helped that fforde, like [...]
2017, Sarah Winterton, The Wintertons Unmuzzled: The Life & Times of Nick & Ann Winterton, Two Westminster Mavericks, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN
Origin
A variant of Forde/Ford: in some blackletter typefaces, capital F looked like (and was later taken to be) two lowercase fs. Compare ffrench.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
fforde. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fforde
“fforde.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fforde. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fforde,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fforde.
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