feuder
Ongoing dispute participant
A feuder is someone engaged in a feud—a prolonged quarrel or bitter conflict.
The term appears most often in contexts of family vendettas or ongoing rivalries: The old feuders finally agreed to a truce after decades of hostility.
In professional wrestling, feuders are performers cast as opponents in an extended storyline rivalry.
Persistent resentment toward someone
- vendettaProlonged retaliatory conflict
- rivalryOngoing contest between opponents
- disputeVerbal clash over differences
- quarrelAngry verbal dispute
animosity · enmity · adversary · antagonist · combatant · opponent · clash · hostility
grudge
Persistent resentment toward someone
- vendettaProlonged retaliatory conflict
- rivalryOngoing contest between opponents
- disputeVerbal clash over differences
quarrel · animosity · enmity · adversary · antagonist · combatant · opponent · clash · hostility · bad blood
clan
Related group sharing ancestry
- kinfolkFamily members collectively
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
patriarch · matriarch · generational · inheritance · legacy · Hatfield · McCoy · Montague · Capulet · household
Appalachian
Eastern U.S. mountain region
- hillbillyRural mountain dweller stereotype
- mountainTall natural landmass
- backwoodsRemote, undeveloped rural area
holler · moonshine · shotgun · territory · boundary · land dispute · property · homestead · rural · isolated
feuderpeacemaker
Conflict resolution agent
reconciler · forgiver · conciliator · peacekeeper · mediator
feudermediator
Neutral conflict resolver
arbitrator · negotiator · diplomat · go-between · intercessor
- family feudProlonged conflict between relatives
- feuding familiesRelated groups in prolonged conflict
- blood feudInherited cycle of retribution
- celebrity feudPublic conflict between famous people
- clan feudsProlonged conflicts between kinship groups
- royal feudConflict among nobility