hoofn.
/huːf/, /hʊf/, U.S. /hʊf/, /huf/ 1.
a. The massive horny growth which sheathes the ends of the digits or incases the foot of quadrupeds forming the order Ungulata, primarily that of the horse and other equine animals: it corresponds to the nails or claws of other quadrupeds. false (also spurious) hoof: see quot. 1854. on the hoof: alive; also transferred and figurative cloven hoof: see cloven adj. c.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > hoof
hoofc1000
ungle1657
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > [noun] > hoofed animal > parts of > hoof or part of
cleec825
clawc1000
hoofc1000
slot1590
the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > opposed to dead
in the land of the livingc825
livingeOE
lifeeOE
quickeOE
aliveOE
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alivesc1300
in lifea1325
with lifea1325
of life1392
breathinga1398
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upon lifea1413
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undeceased1589
vivec1590
breathful1593
vivificent1598
on the hoof1818
c1000 Rune Poem (Gr.) xix Hors hofum wlanc.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. Ungula, hof, oððe clawu.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4179 Þe nedder..sal byte þe hors by þe hufe harde.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Kings ix. 33 The hors houes [a1425 L.V. howues] that treden hyre.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xiii. xii. (Bodl.) Hooues and clees of beestes.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xvii. sig. Jiv Discrepant in figure from other horsis, hauing his fore hoeues like to the feete of a man.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xi. 3 What so euer hath hoffe [ Wyclif clee] and deuydeth it in to two clawes.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Cjv Theyr fete..hauing fyue toes like hoeues vndeuided.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Nii/2 Ye Hoof of a foote, vngula.
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia ii. 78 His proud Steed remoues The hopefull fallowes, with his horned hooues.
1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 20 A short pasterne with a hard, high, concavous, and round huffe.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 372 The hooves, and horns of Cattle.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. May 208/2 He [sc. the rhinoceros] has three hoofs on each foot forwards.
1818 H. B. Fearon Sketches Amer. 220 Cattle..are sold in this State, on the hoof, for about 3 dollars per hundred weight.
1830 N. Dana Mariner's Sketches 163 We generally bought our beef ‘on the hoof’.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women xii, in Poems (new ed.) 125 Clattering flints battered with clanging hoofs.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 244 In the horse the rudiments of the two stunted toes were their upper ends or metatarsal bones; in the ox they consist of their lower ends or phalanges; these form the ‘spurious hoofs’, and are parts of the second..and fifth..toes.
1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 282 The hooves of many horses, beating the wide pastures in alarm.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 186/1 The estimated dead weight of the sheep imported on the hoof for slaughter.
a1936 R. Kipling Something of Myself (1937) iii. 71 Why buy Bret Harte, I asked, when I was prepared to supply home-grown fiction on the hoof?
1957 P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy iv. 53 An august figure, weighing seventeen stone or so on the hoof.
1971 Farmer's Weekly 19 Mar. 67/3 You can't grade hoggets on the hoof.
b. In allusion to the cloven hoof attributed to the Devil: cf. cloven adj. c; (also) to the hoof of ‘the Beast’, i.e. Antichrist.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > cloven hoof
cloven hoofc1175
cleft foot1574
hoof1638
Clootie1786
Cloots1786
1638 A. Cant Serm. in J. Kerr Covenants & Covenanters (1895) 77 In their [the English] reformation something of the beast was reserved: in ours not so much as a hoof.
1658 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 257 Wilson..did, after his humoursome way, stoop downe to Baltzar's feet, to see whether he had a huff on, that is to say, to see, whether he was a devil, or not, because he acted beyond the parts of man.
1788 T. Jefferson Wks. (1859) II. 485 Here the cloven hoof begins to appear.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters vii. 171 He has nowhere given to virtue the hoof of a fiend.
1885 J. Payn Luck of Darrells xxxi [It] had caused him to show the cloven hoof too soon.
2.
a. transferred. Hard or callous skin on the hands (cf. horny-handed adj.). dialect.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > hardening or thickening > hard skin
callositya1400
callus1563
warish1570
brawn1578
calluma1640
callousness1705
warda1825
hoof1888
tylosis1890
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Hoof or Hoove, hard skin on the hands made by working.
b. figurative. A callous sheath or covering, as insensible as a hoof.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > callousness or hard-heartedness > hard covering of heart
hoof1647
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xx. 7) Such an hoof they have over their hearts, that scarce any thing will affect them.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Acts xxviii. 27) It is a heavy case when men have got a kind of hoof over their hearts.
3. † b. figurative. A fragment or particle. Obsolete.
a. In certain phrases, put for a hoofed animal, as the smallest unit of a herd or drove.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > [noun] > hoofed animal
hoof1535
ungulate1842
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. x. 26 There shal not one hooffe be left behynde.
1599 George a Greene sig. A4 Sirra you get no victuals here, Not if a hoofe of beefe would saue your liues.
a1799 Washington (Webster 1828) He had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. ix. 153 We would lose every hoof of them [sc. the buffaloes].
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 71 ‘Horse and man,’ he said, ‘All of one mind,..Not a hoof left.’
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment
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fraction1609
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hoof1655
arrachement1656
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shattering1658
discerption1685
scar1698
twitter1715
frust1765
smithereens1841
chitling1843
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 6 Yet we will not willingly leave an hoofe of the British Honour behind.
4.
a. Applied humorously or derogatively to the human foot: esp. in phrases to be (also beat, pad) upon the hoof: to go on foot, to be on the move; also † to plod away on the hoof. to see a person's hoof in anything: to trace or detect his influence or interference in a matter.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)]
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stepc900
goeOE
gangOE
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wanderc1380
foota1425
to take to footc1440
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trade1547
beat it on the hoof1570
pad1610
to be (also beat, pad) upon the hoofa1616
trample1624
to pad (also pad upon) the hoof1683
ambulate1724
shank1773
stump it1803
pedestrianize1811
pedestrianate1845
tramp it1862
ankle1916
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [noun]
footOE
heelOE
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pettitoes1590
goers1612
hoofa1616
fetlock1645
stamper1652
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pedestal1695
trotter1755
footsie1762
dew-beaters1811
pedal1838
mud-hook1850
tootsy1854
tootsicum1860
gun-boat1870
mundowie1880
plate of meat1887
trilby1895
dog1913
puppies1922
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > detect > detect a person's influence
to see a person's hoof in anything1860
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iii. 77 Goe, Trudge; plod away ith' hoofe: seeke shelter, packe. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xvi. 31 A mischance befell the Horse,..insomuch, that the Secretary was put to beat the Hoof himself, and Foot it home.
a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 276 Being then on foot, away I go, And bang the hoof, incognito.
1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 78 We beat the hoof as pilgrims.
1707 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 2nd Pt. vii. 119 A Man that is thus upon the Hoof, can scarce find Leasure for Diversion.
1750 W. Warburton Doctr. Grace xii, in Wks. (1811) VIII. 399 The good man was..forced to beat it on the hoof as far as Hernhuth in Germany.
1794 J. Wolcot Soldier of Tilbury in Wks. (1812) III. 241 Thus Poverty and Merit beat the hoof.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xvi. 269 Contriving..to tread heavily on my toes with his own hoofs.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. ix. 145 Charley Bates expressed his opinion that it was time to pad the hoof.
1860 W. M. Thackeray in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 256 I once said to a literary gentleman,..‘Ah! I thought I recognized your hoof in it’.
b. under the hoof: trampled, downtrodden, under the oppression of.
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society > authority > subjection > in or into subjection [phrase] > under oppression
under the hoof1841
1841 T. P. Thompson Let. 7 Jan. in Exercises (1842) VI. 25 He taunted the unfortunate Canadians while they were under the hoof.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxv. 214 ‘I'd rather, ten thousand times’, said the woman, ‘live in the dirtiest hole at the quarters, than be under your hoof!’ ‘But you are under my hoof, for all that’, said he.
Compounds
C1. Simple attributive.
hoof-beat n.
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1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline ii. ii. 43 The hoof-beats of fate.
1881 Cent. Mag. 23 937/1 The hoofbeats came nearer..over the sandy road.
hoof-clang n.
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1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. Introd. 62 Hoof-clang, hound, and hunters' cry.
hoof-fall n.
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1910 J. Farnol Broad Highway ii. xlvii Nodding sleepily with every plodding hoof-fall.
hoof-hold n.
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1923 H. Sutcliffe Wrack o' Doom ii The broken lands that gave no hoof-hold.
hoof-mark n.
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1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xlix. 32 Wide scatter'd hoof-marks dint the wounded ground.
hoof-print n.
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1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 636 Hoof-prints fill'd with gore.
hoof-stroke n.
hoof-track n.
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1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 105 Avoid the soft ground, my lad; leave no hoof-track behind you.
hoof-tramp n.
hoof-tread n.
C2. Locative.
a.
hoof-brittle adj.
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1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) (at cited word) The Horse will at last grow to be Hoof bound, which dis~temper in the Hoofs as well as Hoof brittle, Hoof cast, malt Hug, &c., you may consult under their respective heads.
hoof-cast adj.
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1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) (at cited word) The Horse will at last grow to be Hoof bound, which distemper in the Hoofs as well as Hoof brittle, Hoof cast, malt Hug, &c., you may consult under their respective heads.
hoof-loosened adj.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Hoof Hoof-loosen'd, is a Dissolution or dividing of the Horn or Coffin of a Horse's Hoof from the Flesh, at the setting on of the Coronet.
b. Instrumental.
hoof-pitted adj.
hoof-plod adj.
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1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 204 Narrow hoof-plod lanes.
hoof-ploughed adj.
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1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xv. 243 In sacred Tempe..about the hoofe-plow'd Spring.
hoof-printed adj.
c. Similative.
hoof-button n.
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1705 London Gaz. No. 4179/4 A great Coat..with black Hoof Buttons.
d.
hoof-footed adj.
hoof-shaped adj.
C3.
hoof-ail n. = hoof-rot n.
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1884 Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. 246 An article on the ‘Hoof-ail’ of cattle.
hoof-and-mouth disease n. = foot and mouth disease n. at foot n. and int. Compounds 3.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > foot and mouth
aphthous fever1759
foot and mouth disease1850
hoof and tongue sickness1867
hoof-and-mouth disease1887
aftosa1903
1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 11 Would it account for the phylloxera, and hoof and-mouth disease, and bad harvests..and the German bands?
hoof and tongue sickness n. = foot and mouth disease n. at foot n. and int. Compounds 3.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > foot and mouth
aphthous fever1759
foot and mouth disease1850
hoof and tongue sickness1867
hoof-and-mouth disease1887
aftosa1903
1867 Queenstown Free Press (S. Afr.) 22 Jan. We have had a great deal of hoof and tongue sickness amongst our cattle.
hoof-binding n. cf. hoof-bound adj. (and n.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves
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sand-crack1753
thrush1753
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bony hoof1765
seedy toe1829
side bone1840
cracked heel1850
mud fever1872
navicular1888
coronitis1890
toe-crack1891
flat-foot1894
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Horse Shoe Panton, or Pantable Shoe, which opens the Heels, and helps Hoof-binding.
hoof-cushion n. = hoof-pad n.
hoof-footed adj. having hoofs on the feet.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > [adjective]
hoofed1513
horn-footed1611
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hoof-footed1721
ungulated1822
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subungulate1889
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 88 The general Heads..are, the Tallon-footed, the Claw-footed, the Hoof-footed, and the double Hoof or Cloven-footed.
hoof-pad n. a pad or cushion to prevent a horse's foot or shoe from striking or cutting the fellow foot.
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hoof-paring knife n. a farrier's knife with a recurved blade, for paring the hoofs of horses.
hoof-pick n. a hooked instrument for picking stones out of a horse's hoof.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > hoof-pick
horse-picker1778
hoof-pick1890
1890 19th Cent. Nov. 845 His comrades will borrow the tools of daily use, such as brushes, hoof-picks, dusters.
hoof-rot n. = footrot n. 1.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > foot-rot
clausick1277
foot evil1562
loor1587
footrot1706
halt1742
foot-halt1788
hoof-rot1863
1863 H. S. Randall Pract. Shepherd ii. 25 Scab and hoof-rot, those dire scourges of the ovine race.
1893 W. B. E. Miller et al. Dis. Live Stock v. 355 (heading) Hoof rot—foot rot.
hoof-spreader n. (see quot. 1875).
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hoof-spreader, a device for expanding mechanically the hoof of a horse suffering from contraction of the foot.
hoof stick n. an instrument for manicuring the nails.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the body > [noun] > beautification of the hands and feet > instruments used on the nails
orange stick1860
hoof stick1960
1960 Woman 30 Jan. 15/2 First she lifts her cuticles gently with a hoof stick.
1970 Observer 8 Feb. 36/7 Keep the cuticle free from the nail with a rubber hoof stick.
Derivatives
ˈhoofish adj. resembling that of a hoof, hoof-like.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > having feet of horn > hoof-like
ungulate1858
hoofish1862
1862 C. Crosland Mrs. Blake II. 245 Beneath the hard, brute heel Whose hoofish tread yet leaves you leal.
ˈhoofless adj. (a) without a hoof or hoofs; (b) destitute of cattle.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > [adjective] > not having hoofs
unhoofed1709
hoofless1728
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 99 After a Rain..their [Camels'] soft hoofless Feet being extremely apt to slip.
1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie v They have robbed the squatter of his beasts..! The reptiles have left him as hoofless as a beaver!
1897 Naturalist 206 The hoofless reindeer with a prodigality of horn.
hoof-like adj.
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1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. I. 29 Their feet are armed with strong, blunt, and hoof-like nails.
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hoof fungus n. (a) a small ascomycete fungus, Onygena equina (family Onygenaceae), which grows on decaying animal material such as hooves and horns (now rare); (b) any of several hoof-shaped bracket fungi; esp. the tinder fungus, Fomes fomentarius, which forms woody brackets resembling horses' hooves in size and shape.
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1860 M. J. Berkeley Outl. Brit. Fungol. i. 21 (list) Ascomycetes... Onygenei. Hoof Fungus.
1904 J. R. Dickson Riding Mountain Forest Reserve (Forestry Branch, Canad. Dept. Interior) 24 When its [sc. the birch tree's] vigour declines, the hoof fungus (Polyporus betulinus) invariably enters and destroys it.
1910 Lancs. Naturalist Apr. 14 It was ultimately identified as the ‘Hoof Fungus’, Onygena equina, by my colleague, Mr. Harold Murray.
1979 G. Kibby Mushrooms & Toadstools 214 Fomes fomentarius (Tinder Fungus, Hoof Fungus): thick hoof-like bracket, dull yellow-brown to greyish with paler spores.
1996 Guardian 12 Dec. i. 22/7 Where the main branches met the trunk, the killer revealed itself—Fomes fomentarius, the hoof fungus.
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colloquial (chiefly British). A kick of a ball, esp. a football, characterized by power rather than skill or accuracy. Cf. hoof v. Additions.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the foot > kicking > a kick
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root1907
boot1942
hoof1985
1985 J. Foster in Observer 3 Mar. (Sport section) 48/8 Lovell's winner was a lob from a hoof out of defence.
2002 Mirror 18 Mar. (‘Mania’ section) 8/4 The hoof upfield doesn't work for most teams, but when you've got speedy Anelka chasing into space it is an effective tactic.
2020 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 9 Feb. (Sports section) 6 For the last 10 minutes,..every clearance was cheered.., every long hoof out of defence celebrated as if it were a cup final winner.
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hoofv.
/huːf/, /hʊf/, U.S. /hʊf/, /huf/ 1.
a. intransitive. Also to hoof it. To go on foot; to foot it.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > in contrast with 'ride'
to walk on footc1390
to take to one's feet (or foot)1508
to walk afoot1565
walk1631
to hoof it1652
peripateticate1793
foot-slog1897
1652 [see hoofing n. at Derivatives].
1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice ii. 15 I am growing a Woman's Ass..and I must hoof it away with her load of Folly upon my back.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 98 Neither are their women and children (many of which hoof it over those Desarts..) very apt to lag behind.
1827 T. Moore Case of Libel in Poet. Wks. 381/1 And so my gentleman [sc. the devil] hoof'd about.
1877 J. Habberton Jericho Road i. 7 If we get stuck way up the river, so's we have to lay up all summer, and you have to hoof it in deep water.
1888 ‘Buffalo Bill’ Story of Wild West 531 I finally concluded that my prospects were good for ‘hoofing’ the whole distance.
1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor iv. 58 He hoofed it back to the cabin.
1923 H. Belloc Sonnets & Verse 111 A score of stout fellows who..Hoofed it amain, Rain or no rain.
1958 S. Ellin Eighth Circle (1959) ii. xvii. 177 They hoofed it all the way down to Barrow Street.
1972 C. Weston Poor, Poor Ophelia (1973) xvii. 109 Man's not very sick if he's out hoofing around that early.
b. To dance. Also with it. slang.
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society > leisure > dancing > [verb (intransitive)]
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dancec1300
sault1377
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hopc1405
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trip1578
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to shake heels1595
to shake it1595
firk1596
tripudiate1623
pettitoe1651
step1698
jink1718
to stand up1753
bejig1821
to toe and heel (it)1828
morris1861
hoof1925
terp1945
1925 Amer. Speech 1 36/2 A ‘hoofing act’ is entirely made up of step dancing.
1926 C. Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 13 Le's hoof, Ruby urged. Le's sit down, Anatole commanded.
1928 Daily Express 2 July 11/5 Mr. Tommy Nolan proposed to his partner, Miss Anna King. She accepted him, and they planned their wedding and honeymoon while ‘hoofing’.
1958 ‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock iii. 27 A pretty nifty dancer himself in his young days and still able to hoof it quite neatly.
1972 I. Hamilton Thrill Machine xv. 64 She sings, she hoofs a little, she does some straight narration.
2. transitive.
a. To strike with the hoof.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > strike with hoof
hoof1864
1864 Bushnell Christ & His Salvat. (1865) i. 15 All horning or hoofing each other, as hungry beasts in their stall.
b. To dismiss, expel, eject. Usually with out.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > specific people from a place, position, or possession > forcibly or ignominiously
eject1555
rumble1570
obtrude1595
to show (a person) the door1638
to kick downstairs1678
to kick out1697
drum1720
firk1823
to chuck out1869
bounce1877
boot1880
out-kick1883
turf1888
hoof1893
hound1922
1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 340/2 To hoof out.
1905 Daily Chron. 22 Apr. 9/2 Well, at least we know for certain..that he was hoofed out of the Guards.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xxiii. 376 They've hoofed out the prostitute.
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey iii. viii A packer we had, who got hoofed for snooping books.
1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club i. 8 They'd hoof me out of the Club if I raised my voice beyond a whisper.
1959 Punch 6 May 600/2 They hoofed the London Museum out of Lancaster House.
1973 ‘B. Mather’ Snowline v. 60 The Bengali doctor came in at that stage and hoofed Mukkerjee out of it.
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3. southern U.S. colloquial ‘To kill (game) by shooting it on the ground’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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ˈhoofer n. slang (originally U.S.) a dancer.
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society > leisure > dancing > dancer generally > [noun]
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1923 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2/1 Hoofer, a dancer, also a heel-beater.
1928 Sunday Express 8 Apr. 5/7 To-morrow Roy Lloyd, who was the hoofer in ‘Broadway’, takes up the part.
1928 J. P. McEvoy Show Girl iv. 52 Eight femmes and a pair of male hoofers take up the burden when she is off.
1936 ‘J. Tey’ Shilling for Candles vi. 59 The little Broadway hoofer was blossoming into the song-and-dance star.
1959 News Chron. 19 June 8/2 Holly..gets herself involved with a no-good hoofer in a low night club.
1969 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 21/5 An orthodox tale of stage success: unknown girl hoofer becoming overnight hit by breaking all the Ziegfeld rules.
1973 Sunday Express 8 July 6/4 She was impressed by one of the male dancers... The one-time hoofer ended up by working for her for 40 years.
ˈhoofing n. going on foot; provision of hoofs.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun]
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > [noun] > hoofed animal > parts of > hoof or part of > provision of
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1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iii. sig. G3 I am sorely surbated with hoofing already.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 479 As much as Riding differs from Hoofing.
1872 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David III. Ps. lxix. 31 The horning and hoofing are nothing to him, though to Jewish ritualists these were great points.
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transitive. colloquial (chiefly British). To kick (a ball, esp. a football) powerfully but with little skill or accuracy. Cf. hoof n. Additions.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the foot
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1905 Commerc. Tribune (Cincinnati) 13 Nov. 6/2 Ruff hoofed the ball, but it struck the goal post and bounced back.
1971 Sunday Tel. 7 Mar. 27/1 The Everton defence..looked..panic-prone. They hoofed the ball anywhere and mis-directed passes galore.
2012 C. Shindler Manch. City ruined my Life i. 3 With less than sixty seconds left, the ball was still in the City half but Gerard Wiekens collected a throw-in and hoofed it upfield.
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