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fod

/fɒd/US/fɑd/

fod noun: forehead, particularly a large one.

Noun (1)

fod (plural fods)

  1. (Northern England, dialectal, slang) forehead, particularly a large one
    Synonyms:
    forehead, brow

Noun (2) capitalized: FOD

FOD (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, particularly on an aircraft carrier's deck) Initialism of foreign object debris.

Phrase capitalized: FOD

FOD

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of fuck off and die.

Noun (3) capitalized: FoD

literary/fuːd/IPA/ɛf əʊ diː/

FoD (plural FoDs)

  1. (slang) A fan of the character Don Schanke from the Canadian television series Forever Knight.
    • First, I am an FoD ( That is, a Friend of Don Schanke), so naturally I have a preference for the Schanke-Nick partnership.1997 February 8, moemcal@aol.com, “Who is better, Schanke or Tracy”, in alt.tv.forever-knight (Usenet), archived from the original on 27 Jan 2026
    • For all you FoDs and Cohenheads that may be on this NG [newsgroup], they're in this!1999 June 13, Goddenport, “New Skit: LACROIX'S EXPERIMENT”, in alt.tv.forever-knight (Usenet), archived from the original on 27 Jan 2026

Synonyms of fod

Forms of fod

pluralfods
pluralFoDs

Origin of fod

From a shortening of forehead, folk etymology an acronym for "forehead of doom".

Initialism of friend of Don. The homophony with food is a reference to the character being often depicted eating or talking about food.

Words that rhyme with fod

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Questions about fod

What does fod mean?
Fod means forehead, particularly a large one.
What part of speech is fod?
Fod can be a noun or a phrase.
How do you pronounce fod?
Fod is pronounced /fɒd/ (UK).
What is the plural of fod?
The plural of fod is fods.

Words near fod in the dictionary

  1. focusses
  2. focussing
  3. focussing cloth
  4. focussing cloths
  5. Focșani
  6. fod
  7. fodder
  8. fodder melon
  9. fodder melons
  10. fodder radish
  11. fodder radishes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fod (page history and authors); FOD (page history and authors); FoD (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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