English
Alternative forms
frienemy
Etymology
A portmanteau word, blending "friend" and "enemy". Likely to have been invented independently multiple times.
Noun
frenemy (plural: frenemies.)
- Someone who pretends to be your friend, but is really your enemy.
Quotations
2000: frenemies �Sex and the City, season 3 episode 16, first aired October 1. [title]
2001: In France the Seine has all the advantages of Northernness (a quality underrated by our Gallic frenemy) but it is too fatally interested in Paris [...] �John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure. 1
2004: You know when you dump a guy, only to discover years later that he's evolved into the perfect boyfriend�for the high-school frenemy who convinced you to dump him in the first place...? �The Ex-Factor, Andrea Semple. [back cover] 2
2005: So why did we break up? Enter Blaize St. John, frenemy extraordinaire. She came, she saw, she stole my boyfriend. �Single Girl's Guide to Murder, Joanne Meyer. [back cover] 3
2007: Frenemy �the subject of the segment, "The Word" on the popular television show, "The Colbert Report"(Stephen Colbert)
2007: "The On-again off-again frenemies are now partying together." Used on, E! News Weekly April 29, 2007, refering to Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.
2007: "Gates made a rare and instructive appearance with his longtime frenemy Steve Jobs." Appeared on Time's June 18, 2007 issue.
Translations
Japanese: ����
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