Meanings
plural fylfots
- A swastika, especially one with the arms bent in an anticlockwise direction.
There was a coffee tray on top of it, and spilt coffee part hid the fylfot design of the tray.
1982, Anthony Burgess, The End of the World News2 more examples
Then look at that jade fylfot charm pawned for one-and-three down at the Basin and the use that could have been made of it in the Kharkov 'ritual murder' trial.
1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max CarradosMorley: A year and a half ago I stumbled into your gingerbread office, a lost, frightened soul in terrified flight across the great yawning terror of doubt—a human being, in short!—and you chanted some hagridden formulas and danged some fylfots...
1968, The Discovery of Drama, page 378
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Old Englishfōt
- Old Englishfyllan
- Middle Englishfillen“to fill”
- Englishfylfot
Uncertain, but likely from Middle English fillen (“to fill”) (from Old English fyllan) + fot (“foot”) (from Old English fōt), in reference to its use as a design to be placed at the bottom of stained-glass windows.
More words from Middle English, Old English
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