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Meaning of Eft | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
ɛft

Definitions

  1. A newt, especially a smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus), of Europe.
  2. Initialism of electronic funds transfer.
  3. Initialism of Emotional Freedom Techniques (“a form of counselling based on various alternative medicine practices”).

Equivalents

العربية الإفت (زاحف)
Български тритон
Čeština čolek
Kurdî colek
Polski traszka tryton znów znowu
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Examples

“Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].”
“How did he like it when the live creatures Tickled and toused and browsed him all over, And worm, slug, eft, with serious features Came in, each one, for his right of trover?”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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