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black foot
1. A (member of a) North American Indian people; their language. Also attrib.
1794Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1810) 1st Ser. III. 24 The Blackfeet tribe. 1834J. Townsend Jrnl. 17 July in A. B. Hulbert Overland to Pacific (1934) IV. 192 The Blackfoot is a sworn and determined enemy to all white men. 1836Irving Astoria I. xv. 246 Colter..[had] some knowledge of the Blackfoot language. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 404 The Black-feet are a very powerful and numerous people. 1933Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 A few detached languages in the west: Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. 1962Listener 26 Apr. 721/2 He was captured by Blackfeet Indians. 1969Observer (Colour Suppl.) 18 May 22/4 Among the Blackfoot, stealing an enemy's weapons was the highest exploit. Ibid. 25/2 Yet calling a Blackfoot, for example, ‘warlike’ reveals nothing. The entire Blackfoot tribe did not habitually engage in war because individual members possessed ‘warlike’ personalities.
2. Sc. A go-between in a love affair; a match-maker.
1814Saxon & Gael I. 161 (Jam.) Thinkin' ye might be black-fit, or her secretar. 1822Scott Nigel xxxiv, I could never have expected this intervention of a proxeneta, which the vulgar translate blackfoot, of such eminent dignity. 1830Galt Lawrie T. vii. ix. (1849) 344. |