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When did the word fiend first take on the informal meaning of an enthusiastic devotee or hobbyist?

fiend

[feend] / find /




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He’s a workout fiend, just like his father, Bill, was before him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025

It telegraphs that Abigail is no barbaric horror fiend but instead a sophisticated aesthete, which makes her both scarier and funnier.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

Ryker was a hockey fiend at about a year old, watching 6 a.m.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

But "the fiend" eventually disappeared beneath layers of paint and varnish.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023

They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen- dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

I left the theater feeling giddily put through the wringer by its contrarian depictions of heroes and fiends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

The good news for summer fiends: The region is expected to warm up next week on Thursday and Friday.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

Lillian and her late husband, Frank, were absolute fiends for efficiency.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023

In 1999's "Cruel Intentions" Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe play the elegant, perilously bored fiends bent on sullying the reputations of Selma Blair and Reese Witherspoon, this time in Manhattan instead of Paris.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022

Led by the biggest and most muscular of the lot, they rushed at Hugo, a motley mob of wiry fiends.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull


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