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splay-footed, a.
Also 6 splaie-. β. 6–7 spla-, 7 splea-.
[f. as prec.]
Having splay feet.
α1545Elyot, Planci, they whiche be splay footed. 1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 403 He was splay footed, and also poare blind. 1594Nashe Terrors of Night To Rdr., Martin Momus, and splaie footed Zoylus,..are now reuiu'd againe. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 186 The long-footed are fraudulent; and short-footed, sudden; and splay-footed, silly. 1695Lond. Gaz. No. 3057/4 A splay footed and down look'd man. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 186 A gigantic Swede, who, had he not been..splay-footed, might have served for the model of a Samson. 1892J. Lumsden Sheephead & Trotters 233 This long-limbed and somewhat splay-footed genius.
β1593Passionate Morrice (1876) 82 Other [suitors], which were well legde, shaled with their feete, or were splafooted. 1608Machin Dumb Knt. iv, Sure I met no splea-footed baker, No hare did crosse me. 1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. clxxxv. 788 All Clowns, crump-shouldered or splea-footed. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2392/4 A bandy-leged splafooted..Man.
b. fig. Clumsy, awkward; sprawling.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 139 The rest moulded upon Lucretius's Splay-footed numbers. 1756Francis tr. Horace, Epist. (ed. 7) ii. i. 183 Nor wish [I] to stand expos'd to public Shame,..Nor in splay-footed Rhimes to shew my Face. 1765Falconer Demagogue 380 Splay-footed words, that hector, bounce, and swagger. |