These EFTS, or evvets, as the people call them, are regarded with horror by the peasantry.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
Yes, Sir-at least a venomous sort of reptile like them, which the people about here call EFTS!
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009
We should learn thirty-seven or thirty-nine things, I am not exactly sure which; but one thing, at least, we may learn, and that is this- when we see EFTS in the pond, never to throw stones at them, or catch them with crooked pins.
"Journeys Through Bookland V2"
Charles H. Sylvester