单词 | flat-foot |
释义 | flat-footn. 1. a. (See quot. 1884.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.) ΘΚΠ 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.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.). ΘΚΠ 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 Bow-street runner- 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1870 |
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