单词 | to hoof it |
释义 | > as lemmasto hoof it a. intransitive. Also to hoof it. To go on foot; to foot it. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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