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futon (n.)[futon 词源字典]: 1876, from Japanese, said to mean "bedroll" or "place to rest."[futon etymology, futon origin, 英语词源]
future (adj.): late 14c., "that is yet to be; pertaining to a time after the present," from Old French futur "future, to come" (13c.), from Latin futurus "going to be, yet to be," as a noun, "the future," irregular suppletive future participle of esse "to be," from PIE *bheue- (see be). In grammar, of tense, from 1520s.
future (n.): "future events; time to come," late 14c., modeled on Latin futura, neuter plural of futurus (see future (adj.)).
futures (n.): "goods sold on agreement for future delivery," 1880, from future (n.) in a financial sense "speculative purchase or sale of stock or other commodities for future delivery."
futurism (n.): 1909 as the name of a movement in arts and literature, from Italian futurismo, coined 1909 by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944); see future + -ism. Futurist is from 1911 in the arts movement sense; attested from 1842 in a Protestant theological sense ("one who holds that nearly the whole of the Book of Revelations refers principally to events yet to come" - Century Dictionary). As "one who has (positive) feelings about the future" it is attested from 1846 but marked in dictionaries as "rare."
futuristic (adj.): by 1856 in theology, with reference to prophecy; 1915 as "avant garde, ultra-modern," from futurist (see futurism) + -ic. Meaning "pertaining to the future, predicted to be in the future" is from 1921, from future (n.) + -istic.
futurity (n.): c. 1600, from future + -ity.
futurology (n.): 1946 (A. Huxley), from future (n.) + -ology.
futz (v.): "loaf, waste time," 1932, American English, perhaps from Yiddish. Related: Futzed; futzing.
fuze (n.): see fuse (n.).
fuzz (n.): 1590s, fusse, first attested in fusball "puff ball of tiny spores," of uncertain origin; perhaps a back-formation from fuzzy, if that word is older than the record of it. Meaning "the police" is American English, 1929, underworld slang; origin, signification, and connection to the older word unknown. Perhaps a variant of fuss, with a notion of "hard to please."
fuzz (v.): 1702, "make fuzzy," from fuzz (n.). Related: Fuzzed; fuzzing. Fuzzword (based on buzzword) "deliberately confusing or imprecise bit of jargon" is a coinage in political writing from 1983.
fuzzy (adj.): 1610s, "soft, spongy;" a dialectal word of uncertain origin, apparently from fuzz (n.) + -y (2), but perhaps an import from continental Germanic. Compare Low German fussig "weak, loose, spongy," Dutch voos "spongy." From 1713 as "covered with fuzz;" 1778 as "blurred;" and 1937 as "imprecise," with reference to thought, etc. Related: Fuzzily; fuzziness.
fylfot (n.): supposedly a native name for the swastika (used as a decorative device), but only attested in a single, damaged c. 1500 manuscript, and in that it might rather refer to any sort of device used to fill the bottom (foot) of a design. "[I]t is even possible that it may have been a mere nonce-word" [OED].
falciform: "Curved like a sickle; hooked", Mid 18th century: from Latin falx, falc- 'sickle' + -iform.
foxhole: "The earth or burrow of a fox", Old English: from fox + hole; the military sense arose during the First World War.
flavine: "An antiseptic derived from acridine", Early 20th century: from Latin flavus 'yellow' + -ine⁴.
fig leaf: "A leaf of a fig tree, often used for concealing the genitals in paintings and sculpture", Early 16th century: with reference to the story of Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:7).
fava bean: "North American term for broad bean", Italian fava, from Latin faba 'bean'.
flexile: "Pliant and flexible", Mid 17th century: from Latin flexilis, from flectere 'to bend'.