单词 | hot-footed |
释义 | hot-footedadj.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > disorders of feet or hooves broken-hoofed1362 afounded?a1425 foundered1543 pumiced1566 hoof-bound1598 fretished1607 incastellated1611 wired1614 gravelled1630 grease-fallen1688 greasy1701 incastled1706 greased1710 scratchy1710 retraised1725 hot-footed1740 twitter-boned1760 quittered1778 thrushy1831 1740 G. Fisher Instructor (ed. 5) 373 And this is very proper for a Horse that is hot-footed. 1759 W. Osmer Treat. Dis. & Lameness Horses ii. 14 The Bar is scooped out, the Frog trimmed, and the Sole drawn as thin as possible, even to the Quick, under Pretence of giving him Ease, because he says, he is hot-footed or foundered. 2. Quick, hasty; rushed, hurried. Cf. hotfoot adv. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving with urgent speed hastening1545 hasting1566 hot-footed1844 1844 J. P. Durbin Observ. Europe II. x. 150 It became a hot-footed race, or scamper, of the most furious energy. 1856 G. H. Boker Betrothal v. i, in Plays & Poems II. 97 Ever hot-footed on his way of life, Beating its quiet path to choking dust. 1903 W. B. Yeats In Seven Woods 37 The hot-footed sun, And the cold sliding slippery-footed moon. 1926 C. Harris Flapper Anne ii. 92 At the present nothing was further from her thoughts than marrying Sealy, but she craved the triumph of bringing him hotfooted to Milledge. 1988 J. Brodsky Venetian Stanzas ii. i, in To Urania 93 Like lengthy, supple sticks run by hot-footed schoolboys along iron grates, the morning rays strum colonnades, red-brick chimneys, sample curled seaweed, invade arcades. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1740 |
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