Meanings
nounfrenemyship (countable and uncountable, plural frenemyships)
plural frenemyships · alternative frienemyship
- countableAn ambiguously friendly or antagonistic relationship.
It is hard to image such a garrulous frenemyship in today's Washington.
2025 April 12, Edward Luce, “The revenge of geopolitics”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1
Origin
From frenemy + -ship, by analogy with friendship.
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