footedadj.

Brit.

/ˈfʊtᵻd/, U.S.

/ˈfʊdəd/

Forms: see foot n. and int. and -ed suffix²; also Middle English ifoted.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: foot n., -ed suffix².

Etymology: < foot n. + -ed suffix².In Middle English in form ifoted with prefixation after past participle forms in y- prefix. In early use parasynthetic adjectives formed with this word as second element (see especially sense 1a) are often attested alongside (and apparently modelled on) earlier parallel compound adjectives with foot n. or its Germanic base (usually with suffixation) as second element (Old English -fōt , -fōte ; compare e.g. barefoot adj. and adv., four-foot adj.). Many adjectives of this earlier type show i-mutation of the stem vowel caused by the original i of the suffix, e.g. Old English fēowerfēte beside fēowerfōte (see four-foot adj.). Compare (with additional -ed suffix²) fīffētede having five feet (see quot. OE at sense 3).

1. Of a person or animal.

a. As the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having feet of a specified kind or number.claw-, cold-, fleet-footed, etc.: see the first element. See also barefooted adj., four-footed adj., light-footed adj., etc.

ΚΠ

OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 103 Mancus, wohhandede. Peduncus, wohfotede.

lOE St. Margaret (Corpus Cambr.) (1994) 164 Sume mid oðres mannes wife gehæmdon; sume mid feowerfoted nytene for minum [sc. a devil's] willen gefremedon.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. at Pansa Playne footed.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 17 Woorme-toungued Oratours, dust-footed Poets, and weatherwise historians.

1602 Withals' Dict. 286/2 That is crooke-footed, or wry-legged.

1677 N. Tate Poems 98 Appear my Kib-welkin, dear Spirit appear In the Shape Of an Ape, A Fire-spitting Dragon, or Clump-footed Bear.

1796 S. Freeman Observ. Mechanism Horse's Foot 90 The fuller must be very near the edge, as in the case of a thin-footed horse.

1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea i. 8 The Schizopŏda, or cleft-footed crustaceans, in certain points of structure so near to the prawns and shrimps.

a1913 F. Rolfe & H. Pirie-Gordon Hubert's Arthur (1978) i. ix. 164 A donkey-footed hobgoblin called Empusa.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. ii. 26 The head begins to come into its own for the first time in some of the bristle-footed marine worms.

2013 Kingpin Apr. 128/1 Walid is 24 years old and he's goofy footed.

b. Having feet; (frequently) having feet like those of some other specified animal. Now archaic and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [adjective]

footeda1387

pedal1625

pedate1816

pedigerous1826

pedalian1830

podalic1839

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 365 Vlcanus..wiþ Minerua gat Eructorius i-foted as a dragon [L. cum pedibus dracontinis].

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 484 The questyng beste..buttokked lyke a lyon and footed lyke an harte.

a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 49 Foted lyke a plane.

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxiii. 201 They [sc. otters] are footed like a Goose: I meane they haue a webbe betweene theyr clawes.

1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. A4 Footed broad and long, In Motly cotes, goes Iacke Oates.

1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 18 The Seal-fish is..footed like a Moldwarp.

1727 P. Longueville Hermit 15 An Animal..fac'd and footed like a Goat.

1735 R. Savage Progress of Divine 6 At what does next his Erudition aim? To kill the footed and the feather'd Game.

1854 H. H. Wilson tr. Rig-veda II. 91 The footless dawn is the precursor of footed beings.

1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 220 Thighed and shouldered like the billows;—footed like their stealing foam.

1984 H. Blamires Short Hist. Eng. Lit. (ed. 2) viii. 117 Christian endures sore combat for half a day with the fiend Apollyon.., winged like a dragon, footed like a bear.

2. Of a thing, esp. an item of furniture: having or supported by a foot or feet. Also as the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having or supported by a foot or feet of a specified material, number, etc.Recorded earliest in three-footed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > relating to or forming a base > having a (specific) base

footedOE

standing1412

well-couchedc1475

bottomed1582

baseda1616

foundeda1616

well-bottomeda1628

well-founded1671

clawed1768

claw-feet1823

substructured1952

OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 63 Trisilis, þryfotad fæt.

1398–9 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Wills Court of Husting (1890) II. 337 (MED) [A mazer cup called] le Fotidcupp.

1453 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 191 ij. salers broken, of silver gilted and foted.

1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 23 A chayer, iij. footyd stoolys.

c1530 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 301 Item oone pleyne Pece footid and with a Cover.

1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo f. 14 Seneca..had fiue hundred stooles in his house of one fashion, al headed with Cipres, and footed with Yuory.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. xvi. 85 Then..80. women were carried in chaires footed with gold.

1639 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 182 I giue and bequeath..my stone pott..footed and tipt.

1753 Philos. Trans. 47 393 The chair without a back, or rather a stool with a cushion upon the seat, and the three-footed table, at which they sit, are very complete, and well-preserved.

1780 Ann. Reg. 1779 Natural Hist. 63/1 On the glass-footed stool forty-five minutes: received strong shocks through her legs and feet, which from that time began to recover their wonted uses.

1834 J. Roby Crystal Goblet in G. Hogarth White Rose of York 31 The stranger was installed in a small chamber behind the public room, where stood a couch, a three-footed table, and a lavatory.

1878 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Mar. 333/1 Mr. Finch draws a claw-footed chair to the hearth opposite the baronet.

1938 Amer. Home Jan. 57/1 The larger pieces are the best, the bowls and pitchers, the footed compotes and covered stands.

1957 N.Y. Times 16 June 64 (advt.) Rubber-footed legs that spare floors and hold trampoline steady.

1991 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 28 Sept. a6/5 It is practically impossible to tip over a five footed swivel chair.

3. Of verse: composed in metrical feet. Chiefly as the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having a specified number of metrical feet; often in hyperbolical use referring to a tendency to use overlong words (cf. sesquipedalian adj. and n.).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > composed in feet

footed1567

OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 162 Brachicatalectico : i. diminuto s. uersu, mid fiffetedum uel scertrum.]

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 103 In footed verse.

c1595 R. Southwell St. Peter's Complaint Ded. This measured and footed stile.

1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 123 The..Swanne..In footed verse sings out his deep annoy.

1618 J. Taylor in T. Coryate Coriat to his Friends sig. ¶3 Accept these footed verses I implore thee.

1646 J. Goodwin Anapologesiates Antapologias Pref. sig. b4 Here is a word of his, that is six and thirty-footed at least, and treads harder then all my six-footed words put together.

1784 W. Hayley Mausoleum i. i. in Plays of Three Acts 360 Splenetic Rumble, who, grandly absurd, Never speaks without using a six-footed word.

1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 168/2 Who has not heard of that many-footed metre?

1862 Continental Monthly Sept. 285/1 Have not old Dr. Johnson's seven-footed words..declared plagiarists from the works of buried writers ‘jackals, battening on dead men's thoughts’?

1920 W. P. Ker Art of Poetry 6 English readers have to be taught that the French Alexandrine is neither ‘our four-footed verse of the triple cadence’ nor yet what the Northern languages made of it in the seventeenth century, High Dutch or Low Dutch, and Danish.

1970 Internat. Jrnl. Middle East Stud. 1 250 ‘Free verse’, based on the single foot as a metrical unit rather than the multi-footed traditional verse.

2008 J.-M. Claassen Ovid Revisited iv. 138 Metrics and the rules of elegiac verse produce playful allusions to alternating six- and five-footed verse.

4. As the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having a height, length, etc., of the specified number of feet, as six-footed, twelve-footed, etc. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [adjective] > two, etc., feet long or wide

bipedalc1420

footed1568

septipedal1606

twelve-footed1611

septempedal1656

two-foot1664

six-foot1681

fourteen-foot1890

two-foot-wide1891

1568 W. Fulwood Enimie Idlenesse i. f. 76 And if euer you sawe man of warre play better with a two footed swoord, then say boldly that I am a lyar.

1616 R. Sheldon Suruey Miracles Church of Rome 303 The twelue-footed man, as he is measured by Petrus de Natalibus!

1635 W. Wood New Englands Prospect (ed. 2) i. vi. 21 This Woolfe, whose mouth watering at a few poore impaled Kiddes, would needes leape over a five-footed [1634 five-foote] pale to be at them.

1708 Brit. Apollo 10–15 Dec. A Fifteen-Footed Dish Exactly Nicks the Tail o'th' Fish.

1761 T. Arnold Bailey's Compl. Eng. Dict. (German ed.) II. 398/1 Siebenschuhiger Kerl, (ein) a seven-footed Lath-Back, a slim long Fellow.

2013 B. Evaristo Mr Loverman vi. 107 Then she elevates herself in all of her sloshed, six-footed, be-heeled glory, staggers over to Morris and grabs his shoulders.

5. Of a garment such as trousers, stockings, or pyjamas: incorporating a covering for the feet. Also: repaired with a new foot piece.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > other

capedc1550

footeda1652

untuckered1713

yoked1852

flapped1860

long-trousered1866

panty leg1908

backless1926

shoulderless1928

wrap-over1960

a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. ii. sig. E6^v, in Five New Playes (1653) A fellow that wore worsted stockins footed.

1789 Life & Adventures Anthony Leger II. xiv. 183 Two pair of stockings, one pair footless, the other footed with cloth.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. x. 99 A large pair of footed trowsers.

1898 E. Marriage tr. H. de Balzac Bureaucracy in tr. H. de Balzac Princess's Secrets 159 In the morning he appeared in footed trousers and thin-soled shoes, a superannuated waistcoat, a greenish black greatcoat and a black cravat.

1958 J. Richardson tr. E. Feydeau Théophile Gautier vii. 79 His dark chestnut hair fell literally to his waist. He usually wore a black velvet jacket, footed trousers and yellow slippers.

1988 D. Davis Healing Effect 153 He started asking me about my day, my work, when he was still in footed pyjamas.

1995 L. Nagata Tech-heaven ix. 155 She went to the locker and sorted through the gear until she found a set in her size—footed suit, helmet, gloves.

2009 New Yorker 20 Apr. 93/1 He didn't fit anymore in the footed pajamas.

6. Archery. Of an arrow: reinforced at the point end with a footing (footing n. 8e).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [adjective] > types of target arrow

hoyling1590

footed1844

1844 Sporting Almanack & Oracle Rural Life 29 Arrows.—Of these there are a great variety, but the best are footed arrows.

1856 H. A. Ford Archery v. 29 Arrows are either selfs or footed; the former are made of a single piece of wood; the latter..have a different and harder wood dovetailed on to them at the pile end.

1906 L. W. Maxson in A. S. Draper & C. Welsh Self Culture for Young People VI. 30 Footed shafts, those tipped with a denser wood at the forward end, are preferable to unfooted arrows, which easily break whey they strike a solid body.

1929 Illustr. London News 12 Oct. 626/3 The footed shaft tapers from the beginning of the foot to the pile.

2014 B. J. Sorrells Guide Longbow v. 40 Footed shafts are difficult to make, and the price reflects the effort that goes into their production.

Phrases

poetic and literary. footed as (also like, with) the wind: swift, speedy. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [adjective] > performed with or accompanied by running > swift of foot

lightOE

fiery-footed1565

fleet-foot1593

swift-foot1594

wind-foot1598

swift-footed1609

footed as (also like, with) the wind1612

fast-footed?1615

swift-heeled1634

fleet-footed1726

wind-footed1848

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiii. 216 Each followes, as his horse were footed with the wind.

1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 46 Fair as the snow and footed as the wind.

1905 Living Age 4 Nov. 258/1 If I were dying, you would come..Through avenues of pleasure as one blind But footed like the wind.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	footed
释义	footedadj. Brit. /ˈfʊtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈfʊdəd/ Forms: see foot n. and int. and -ed suffix²; also Middle English ifoted. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: foot n., -ed suffix². Etymology: < foot n. + -ed suffix².In Middle English in form ifoted with prefixation after past participle forms in y- prefix. In early use parasynthetic adjectives formed with this word as second element (see especially sense 1a) are often attested alongside (and apparently modelled on) earlier parallel compound adjectives with foot n. or its Germanic base (usually with suffixation) as second element (Old English -fōt , -fōte ; compare e.g. barefoot adj. and adv., four-foot adj.). Many adjectives of this earlier type show i-mutation of the stem vowel caused by the original i of the suffix, e.g. Old English fēowerfēte beside fēowerfōte (see four-foot adj.). Compare (with additional -ed suffix²) fīffētede having five feet (see quot. OE at sense 3). 1. Of a person or animal. a. As the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having feet of a specified kind or number.claw-, cold-, fleet-footed, etc.: see the first element. See also barefooted adj., four-footed adj., light-footed adj., etc. ΚΠ OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 103 Mancus, wohhandede. Peduncus, wohfotede. lOE St. Margaret (Corpus Cambr.) (1994) 164 Sume mid oðres mannes wife gehæmdon; sume mid feowerfoted nytene for minum [sc. a devil's] willen gefremedon. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. at Pansa Playne footed. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 17 Woorme-toungued Oratours, dust-footed Poets, and weatherwise historians. 1602 Withals' Dict. 286/2 That is crooke-footed, or wry-legged. 1677 N. Tate Poems 98 Appear my Kib-welkin, dear Spirit appear In the Shape Of an Ape, A Fire-spitting Dragon, or Clump-footed Bear. 1796 S. Freeman Observ. Mechanism Horse's Foot 90 The fuller must be very near the edge, as in the case of a thin-footed horse. 1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea i. 8 The Schizopŏda, or cleft-footed crustaceans, in certain points of structure so near to the prawns and shrimps. a1913 F. Rolfe & H. Pirie-Gordon Hubert's Arthur (1978) i. ix. 164 A donkey-footed hobgoblin called Empusa. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. ii. 26 The head begins to come into its own for the first time in some of the bristle-footed marine worms. 2013 Kingpin Apr. 128/1 Walid is 24 years old and he's goofy footed. b. Having feet; (frequently) having feet like those of some other specified animal. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [adjective] footeda1387 pedal1625 pedate1816 pedigerous1826 pedalian1830 podalic1839 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 365 Vlcanus..wiþ Minerua gat Eructorius i-foted as a dragon [L. cum pedibus dracontinis]. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 484 The questyng beste..buttokked lyke a lyon and footed lyke an harte. a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 49 Foted lyke a plane. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxiii. 201 They [sc. otters] are footed like a Goose: I meane they haue a webbe betweene theyr clawes. 1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. A4 Footed broad and long, In Motly cotes, goes Iacke Oates. 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 18 The Seal-fish is..footed like a Moldwarp. 1727 P. Longueville Hermit 15 An Animal..fac'd and footed like a Goat. 1735 R. Savage Progress of Divine 6 At what does next his Erudition aim? To kill the footed and the feather'd Game. 1854 H. H. Wilson tr. Rig-veda II. 91 The footless dawn is the precursor of footed beings. 1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 220 Thighed and shouldered like the billows;—footed like their stealing foam. 1984 H. Blamires Short Hist. Eng. Lit. (ed. 2) viii. 117 Christian endures sore combat for half a day with the fiend Apollyon.., winged like a dragon, footed like a bear. 2. Of a thing, esp. an item of furniture: having or supported by a foot or feet. Also as the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having or supported by a foot or feet of a specified material, number, etc.Recorded earliest in three-footed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > relating to or forming a base > having a (specific) base footedOE standing1412 well-couchedc1475 bottomed1582 baseda1616 foundeda1616 well-bottomeda1628 well-founded1671 clawed1768 claw-feet1823 substructured1952 OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 63 Trisilis, þryfotad fæt. 1398–9 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Wills Court of Husting (1890) II. 337 (MED) [A mazer cup called] le Fotidcupp. 1453 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 191 ij. salers broken, of silver gilted and foted. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 23 A chayer, iij. footyd stoolys. c1530 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 301 Item oone pleyne Pece footid and with a Cover. 1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo f. 14 Seneca..had fiue hundred stooles in his house of one fashion, al headed with Cipres, and footed with Yuory. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. xvi. 85 Then..80. women were carried in chaires footed with gold. 1639 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 182 I giue and bequeath..my stone pott..footed and tipt. 1753 Philos. Trans. 47 393 The chair without a back, or rather a stool with a cushion upon the seat, and the three-footed table, at which they sit, are very complete, and well-preserved. 1780 Ann. Reg. 1779 Natural Hist. 63/1 On the glass-footed stool forty-five minutes: received strong shocks through her legs and feet, which from that time began to recover their wonted uses. 1834 J. Roby Crystal Goblet in G. Hogarth White Rose of York 31 The stranger was installed in a small chamber behind the public room, where stood a couch, a three-footed table, and a lavatory. 1878 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Mar. 333/1 Mr. Finch draws a claw-footed chair to the hearth opposite the baronet. 1938 Amer. Home Jan. 57/1 The larger pieces are the best, the bowls and pitchers, the footed compotes and covered stands. 1957 N.Y. Times 16 June 64 (advt.) Rubber-footed legs that spare floors and hold trampoline steady. 1991 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 28 Sept. a6/5 It is practically impossible to tip over a five footed swivel chair. 3. Of verse: composed in metrical feet. Chiefly as the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having a specified number of metrical feet; often in hyperbolical use referring to a tendency to use overlong words (cf. sesquipedalian adj. and n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > composed in feet footed1567 OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 162 Brachicatalectico : i. diminuto s. uersu, mid fiffetedum uel scertrum.] 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 103 In footed verse. c1595 R. Southwell St. Peter's Complaint Ded. This measured and footed stile. 1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 123 The..Swanne..In footed verse sings out his deep annoy. 1618 J. Taylor in T. Coryate Coriat to his Friends sig. ¶3 Accept these footed verses I implore thee. 1646 J. Goodwin Anapologesiates Antapologias Pref. sig. b4 Here is a word of his, that is six and thirty-footed at least, and treads harder then all my six-footed words put together. 1784 W. Hayley Mausoleum i. i. in Plays of Three Acts 360 Splenetic Rumble, who, grandly absurd, Never speaks without using a six-footed word. 1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 168/2 Who has not heard of that many-footed metre? 1862 Continental Monthly Sept. 285/1 Have not old Dr. Johnson's seven-footed words..declared plagiarists from the works of buried writers ‘jackals, battening on dead men's thoughts’? 1920 W. P. Ker Art of Poetry 6 English readers have to be taught that the French Alexandrine is neither ‘our four-footed verse of the triple cadence’ nor yet what the Northern languages made of it in the seventeenth century, High Dutch or Low Dutch, and Danish. 1970 Internat. Jrnl. Middle East Stud. 1 250 ‘Free verse’, based on the single foot as a metrical unit rather than the multi-footed traditional verse. 2008 J.-M. Claassen Ovid Revisited iv. 138 Metrics and the rules of elegiac verse produce playful allusions to alternating six- and five-footed verse. 4. As the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having a height, length, etc., of the specified number of feet, as six-footed, twelve-footed, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [adjective] > two, etc., feet long or wide bipedalc1420 footed1568 septipedal1606 twelve-footed1611 septempedal1656 two-foot1664 six-foot1681 fourteen-foot1890 two-foot-wide1891 1568 W. Fulwood Enimie Idlenesse i. f. 76 And if euer you sawe man of warre play better with a two footed swoord, then say boldly that I am a lyar. 1616 R. Sheldon Suruey Miracles Church of Rome 303 The twelue-footed man, as he is measured by Petrus de Natalibus! 1635 W. Wood New Englands Prospect (ed. 2) i. vi. 21 This Woolfe, whose mouth watering at a few poore impaled Kiddes, would needes leape over a five-footed [1634 five-foote] pale to be at them. 1708 Brit. Apollo 10–15 Dec. A Fifteen-Footed Dish Exactly Nicks the Tail o'th' Fish. 1761 T. Arnold Bailey's Compl. Eng. Dict. (German ed.) II. 398/1 Siebenschuhiger Kerl, (ein) a seven-footed Lath-Back, a slim long Fellow. 2013 B. Evaristo Mr Loverman vi. 107 Then she elevates herself in all of her sloshed, six-footed, be-heeled glory, staggers over to Morris and grabs his shoulders. 5. Of a garment such as trousers, stockings, or pyjamas: incorporating a covering for the feet. Also: repaired with a new foot piece. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > other capedc1550 footeda1652 untuckered1713 yoked1852 flapped1860 long-trousered1866 panty leg1908 backless1926 shoulderless1928 wrap-over1960 a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. ii. sig. E6^v, in Five New Playes (1653) A fellow that wore worsted stockins footed. 1789 Life & Adventures Anthony Leger II. xiv. 183 Two pair of stockings, one pair footless, the other footed with cloth. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. x. 99 A large pair of footed trowsers. 1898 E. Marriage tr. H. de Balzac Bureaucracy in tr. H. de Balzac Princess's Secrets 159 In the morning he appeared in footed trousers and thin-soled shoes, a superannuated waistcoat, a greenish black greatcoat and a black cravat. 1958 J. Richardson tr. E. Feydeau Théophile Gautier vii. 79 His dark chestnut hair fell literally to his waist. He usually wore a black velvet jacket, footed trousers and yellow slippers. 1988 D. Davis Healing Effect 153 He started asking me about my day, my work, when he was still in footed pyjamas. 1995 L. Nagata Tech-heaven ix. 155 She went to the locker and sorted through the gear until she found a set in her size—footed suit, helmet, gloves. 2009 New Yorker 20 Apr. 93/1 He didn't fit anymore in the footed pajamas. 6. Archery. Of an arrow: reinforced at the point end with a footing (footing n. 8e). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [adjective] > types of target arrow hoyling1590 footed1844 1844 Sporting Almanack & Oracle Rural Life 29 Arrows.—Of these there are a great variety, but the best are footed arrows. 1856 H. A. Ford Archery v. 29 Arrows are either selfs or footed; the former are made of a single piece of wood; the latter..have a different and harder wood dovetailed on to them at the pile end. 1906 L. W. Maxson in A. S. Draper & C. Welsh Self Culture for Young People VI. 30 Footed shafts, those tipped with a denser wood at the forward end, are preferable to unfooted arrows, which easily break whey they strike a solid body. 1929 Illustr. London News 12 Oct. 626/3 The footed shaft tapers from the beginning of the foot to the pile. 2014 B. J. Sorrells Guide Longbow v. 40 Footed shafts are difficult to make, and the price reflects the effort that goes into their production. Phrases poetic and literary. footed as (also like, with) the wind: swift, speedy. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [adjective] > performed with or accompanied by running > swift of foot lightOE fiery-footed1565 fleet-foot1593 swift-foot1594 wind-foot1598 swift-footed1609 footed as (also like, with) the wind1612 fast-footed?1615 swift-heeled1634 fleet-footed1726 wind-footed1848 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiii. 216 Each followes, as his horse were footed with the wind. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 46 Fair as the snow and footed as the wind. 1905 Living Age 4 Nov. 258/1 If I were dying, you would come..Through avenues of pleasure as one blind But footed like the wind. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.OE
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