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单词 flat-foot
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flat-footn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflat-foot.
1.
a. (See quot. 1884.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of foot
club-foota1552
baker feet1656
valgus1800
varus1800
inversion1825
talipes1842
pommel foot1857
inturn1860
talus1864
flat-foot1870
spurious valgus1872
flat-footedness1882
Friedreich('s) foot1940
1870 T. Holmes Syst. Surg. (ed. 2) III. 693 A slight degree of flat-foot is common in girls.
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Flat-foot, a condition of the foot in which the tarsus does not possess, or loses altogether, its usual arch.
b. A condition in draughthorses in which the hoof is large and very sloping, with a flat sole and large prominent frog.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves
pains1440
mellitc1465
false quarter1523
gravelling?1523
founder1547
foundering1548
foot evil1562
crown scab1566
prick1566
quittor bone1566
moltlong1587
scratches1591
hoof-bound1598
corn1600
javar1600
frush1607
crepance1610
fretishing1610
seam1610
scratchets1611
kibe1639
tread1661
grease1674
gravel1675
twitter-bone1688
cleft1694
quittor1703
bleymes1725
crescent1725
hoof-binding1728
capelet1731
twitter1745
canker1753
grease-heels1753
sand-crack1753
thrush1753
greasing1756
bony hoof1765
seedy toe1829
side bone1840
cracked heel1850
mud fever1872
navicular1888
coronitis1890
toe-crack1891
flat-foot1894
1894 D. Roberge Foot of Horse 58 Thoroughbred horses are great sufferers from overgrowth of hoof, although the form of his foot is preferable to that of the flat foot or the convex form.
1903 Special Rep. Dis. Horse (U.S. Dept. Agric.) (rev. ed.) 372 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (57th Congr., 2nd Session, House of Representatives Doc. 487) XI Flatfoot is that condition in which the sole has little or no convexity.
1906 H. C. Reeks Dis. Horse's Foot 144 Flat-foot is undoubtedly a congenital defect, and is seen commonly in horses of a heavy, lymphatic type.
2.
a. U.S. slang. (See quot. 1887.)
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > attachment to party > one attached to party > stout or uncompromising
true blue1647
henchman1835
straight-out1840
stalwart1881
flat-foot1887
1887 Proctor Americanisms in Knowledge 1 June 184/1 An American ‘flat-foot’ is a man who stands firmly for his party.
b. A foot-soldier, an infantryman. (Cf. flat feet, quot. 1874 for flat-feet n. at flat adj., adv., and n.3 Compounds 2.)
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > foot-soldier
footmanc1325
page?a1400
pieton?1473
foot soldier1587
rondache1607
peon1609
tolpatch1705
foot wobbler1785
wobbler1785
doughboy1835
fantassin1835
mud-crusher1864
web foot1866
grabby1868
infantryman1883
flat-foot1889
gravel-crusher1889
foot-slogger1894
PBI1916
mud-slogger1936
infanteer1944
leg1969
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 348/2 Flat~feet, a foot-soldier; applied generally to the Foot-guards.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 13 Feb. 2/2 To increase the paper strength of the Army by..‘flat-foots’ who could not march.
1955 Archivum Linguisticum 7 68 The flatfoot or infantrymen [sic].
c. A sailor. slang.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun]
shipmanc900
seamanOE
buscarlOE
shipperc1100
ship-gumec1275
marinerc1300
skipper1390
marinela1400
waterman1421
maryneller1470
seafarer1513
sea-fardingera1550
navigator1574
marinec1575
sailer1585
Triton1589
Neptunist1593
canvas-climber1609
sea-crab1609
tar-lubber1610
Neptunian1620
salt-rover1620
sailora1642
tarpaulin1647
otter1650
water dog1652
tarpauliana1656
Jack1659
tar1676
sea-animal1707
Jack tar1709
sailor-man1761
tarry-breeks1786
hearty1790
ocean-farera1806
tarry-jacket1822
Jacky1826
nautical1831
salt water1839
matelotc1847
knight of the tar-brush1866
main-yard man1867
gobby1883
tarry-John1888
blue jersey1889
lobscouser1889
flat-foot1897
handyman1899
1897 Daily News 3 Sept. 5/6 When some marine reads it, he'll say, ‘It's easy to see that a flat-foot has put that in the paper.’
1898 Tit-bits 30 Apr. 81/3 The blue~jacket himself is a ‘flatfoot’.
1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 73 E's a flat-foot, a indigo-blue matlow.
1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 134/1 Flat-foot, a young sailor less than twenty-one.
d. A policeman, a plain-clothes man. (Cf. flatty n.2 3) slang (originally U.S.).
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman
truncheon officer1708
runner1735
horny1753
nibbing-cull1775
nabbing-cull1780
police officer1784
police constable1787
policeman1788
scout1789
nabman1792
nabber1795
pig1811
Bow-street officer1812
nab1813
peeler1816
split1819
grunter1823
robin redbreast1824
bulky1828
raw (or unboiled) lobster1829
Johnny Darm1830
polis1833
crusher1835
constable1839
police1839
agent1841
johndarm1843
blue boy1844
bobby1844
bluebottle1845
copper1846
blue1848
polisman1850
blue coat1851
Johnny1851
PC1851
spot1851
Jack1854
truncheonist1854
fly1857
greycoat1857
cop1859
Cossack1859
slop1859
scuffer1860
nailerc1863
worm1864
Robert1870
reeler1879
minion of the law1882
ginger pop1887
rozzer1888
nark1890
bull1893
grasshopper1893
truncheon-bearer1896
John1898
finger1899
flatty1899
mug1903
John Dunn1904
John Hop1905
gendarme1906
Johnny Hop1908
pavement pounder1908
buttons1911
flat-foot1913
pounder1919
Hop1923
bogy1925
shamus1925
heat1928
fuzz1929
law1929
narker1932
roach1932
jonnop1938
grass1939
roller1940
Babylon1943
walloper1945
cozzer1950
Old Bill1958
cowboy1959
monaych1961
cozzpot1962
policeperson1965
woolly1965
Fed1966
wolly1970
plod1971
roz1971
Smokey Bear1974
bear1975
beast1978
woodentop1981
Five-O1983
dibble1990
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1913 A. Stringer Shadow ii. 48 By the time he had fought his way up to the office of Second Deputy he no longer resented being known as..a ‘flat foot’.
1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iv. 152 He got sore as a boil and stepped up to the lousy flatfoot.
1933 E. C. Vivian Ladies in Case iii. 49 Spike laid out a flat~foot—pleeceman, I mean.
1938 ‘J. Curtis’ They drive by Night xxiii. 262 I don't like no flatfoots myself, but I'll help them get anyone of that sort.
1943 P. Cheyney You can always Duck iii. 52 This guy's a flatfoot—one of Mr. Hoover's little boys—a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident vii. 83 Suppose the flatfeet got to hear of it?
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvii. 369 His name is P. C. Wallace but we call him old Walrus. When he has gone round the corner we call names such as slob, natter knob, or flatfeet.
e. A person (with flat feet). colloquial.
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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 364 Some flatfoot tramp on it in the morning.

Derivatives

ˈflat-foot v. (intransitive) to walk in a flat-footed manner.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > walk with whole sole on ground
flat-foot1932
1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iv. 194 He flat-footed it back to the shade.
1966 Listener 27 Jan. 147/1 ‘Fit for an Alba..’ he said, flat-footing round one of Europe's most extravagant palaces.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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