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ˈweb-ˌfooted, a.
Having web-feet. Also fig. (in quots. 1945 and 1980, Mil.).
1681Grew Musæum i. §iv. iii. 69 Web-footed Fowl or Palmipede's. 1745P. Thomas Voy. S. Seas 337 Flamingoes... The Legs are..Web-footed like a Goose. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. III. 191 It [the capibara] is in a manner web⁓footed. 1818Keats Endym. iv. 245 Web-footed alligators. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) II. 137/1 One of these men..was, it is said, web-footed, naturally, and partially web-fingered. 1910Encycl. Brit. XI. 352/1 Platypus..is of aquatic habits, being web-footed.
fig.1945Tee Emm (Air Ministry) V. 49 We feel that the web-footed boys [i.e. Coastal Command] are not the only ones who may fall into the water out East. 1980Globe & Laurel July/Aug. 226/1 The Small Raids Wing of the newly established Amphibious School based at Fort Cumberland and RMB Eastney, which also absorbed former web-footed units like RM Det 385.
Hence ˈweb-ˌfootedness (Cent. Dict. 1891). |