whitefootadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪtfʊt/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)waɪtˌfʊt/

Inflections: Plural whitefeet, (chiefly in sense B. 4) whitefoots.

Forms: see white adj. and n. and foot n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., foot n.

Etymology: < white adj. + foot n.Also attested early as a surname: William Whitfot (1268), John Weytefot (1327), etc.

A. adj.

Having white or pale feet. Chiefly as an epithet with connotations of freshness or youth.In Old English only in glosses rendering otherwise unattested post-classical Latin albipedius, apparently lit. ‘white-footed’. The precise meaning and reference of the Latin word is uncertain.

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the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > streaked or marked with white > white- or silvery-footed

whitefooteOE

white-footedc1450

silver-footed1620

eOE Épinal Gloss. (1974) 5 Albipedius, huitfot [eOE Cleopatra Gloss. hwitfot].

1821 C. Webbe Summer 35 The first dew-drops shed by a fresh, sweet blossom, Bowing to white-foot May.

1868 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason (ed. 2) ii. 27 White-foot Ino smiling, sat alone.

1935 J. Mackay Vigil & Other Poems 38 Three arrows took the white-foot Dawn From out her heavenly quiver, And aimed into the living sea Across a pallid river.

B. n.

1. A white marking on a horse's foot; a horse's foot with such a marking. Cf. white sock at sock n.¹ 2b. Now rare.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > foot or spec. foot > marking on

whitefoot1587

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > foot or spec. foot > marking on > horse defined by

whitefoot1587

balzan1660

1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell ii. 169 To haue for his beautie, a white in his forehead, or a white fether on his nose, either else a white foote behinde, with a small head, short ears, [etc.].

1609 N. Morgan Perfection of Horse-manship xi. 30 When a horse hath a white foote or a white marke, they say he is excellent good, and him the Italian calleth Balzano.

1690 London Gaz. No. 2575/4 A black Mare with 3 white Feet, and a bald Face.

1702 W. Hope tr. J. de Solleysel Compl. Horseman (new ed.) 67 Ermined white Feet are those which are freckled with little black Spots round the Coronets: an excellent Mark.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. White-Foot..called in French Balzane, is a white mark that happens in the feet of a great many horses, both before and behind, from the fetlock to the coffin.

1855 Southern Cultivator 13 120/2 Four white feet and a white nose—Take off his hide and feed him to the crows.

1916 J. Clark Shoeing & Balancing Light Harness Horse ii. 16 The wall of the white foot is finer, thinner and weaker than the dark foot.

1955 Life 9 May 140/2 (caption) The favorite at 8–5, Nashua has one white foot and a charitable nature.

2000 J. Smiley Horse Heaven xxiii. 158 She [sc. the filly] was dark, but she had a fan-shaped white star between her eyes..as well as one white foot, the left hind.

2. Usually with capital initial. In plural Whitefeet. A member of an agrarian protest organization active in Ireland in 1830–4, whose chief grievances were the payment of tithes and rents, and the expulsion of the peasantry from the land. Also attributive. Cf. white boy n. 4. Now historical.The Whitefeet were one of a number of contemporary protest organizations; they were partly modelled on the earlier Whiteboys, and employed similarly violent methods. Their objection to tithes was aggravated by the perceived failure of the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations > members of

hougher1712

white boys1762

Steel boy1772

defender1788

United Irishman1791

Orangeman1796

marksman1800

Thresher1806

marchman1814

Orangist1822

Rockite1824

Brunswicker1828

Terry Alt1831

whitefoot1831

Repeal Warden1841

Young Irelander1844

Fenian1864

Land-leaguer1878

invincible1883

leaguer1892

Provie1972

1831 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 20 Oct. 1/4 On the night of Monday week, the house of Mr. Hayden, of Knockatrina Wood, near Durrow, was attacked by a party of Whitefeet.

1833 Morning Post 8 Mar. 1/3 James Jackman, a Whitefoot, for attacking the house of one Roche, and killing him, is to be hanged on Monday.

1887 Church Q. Rev. July 294 The Whitefeet outrages..afflicted Dr. Doyle beyond conception.

1955 Studies: Irish Q. Rev. 44 326 The secret societies of Blackfeet, Whitefeet and Terryalts..were particularly active in Carlow, Kilkenny and Queen's County..around 1830.

2003 N. Pelling Anglo-Irish Relations, 1798–1922 ii. 30 Any number of similar bands—with names like The Whitefeet, The Threshers, The Rockites and so forth—had proliferated, helping to earn for Ireland a reputation for lawlessness.

3. A small European moth with a white angled mark on the brown forewing, Epiblema foenella (family Tortricidae). Also attributive in whitefoot tortrix. Now rare.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Eucosomidae > spilonota foenella

whitefoot1832

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 161 The Whitefoot (S[pilonota] fœnella..). Wings..dusky brown,..with a large medial hook-shaped white band.

1851 List Specimens Brit. Animals Brit. Mus.: Hymenoptera Aculeata 47 Halonota fœnella. The White-foot T[ortrix].

1907 W. F. Kirby Butterflies & Moths Europe Pl. lv (caption) Halonota Fœnella—White Foot Tortrix.

4. A white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Peromyscus (deer-mouse)

white-footed mouse1827

deer-mouse1840

vesper mouse1859

old-field mouse1898

rock mouse1904

whitefoot1912

1912 Country Life Amer. 1 July 40/3 Frightened by your investigation of the nest, the white-foot leaps out.

1962 H. Borland Beyond Your Doorstep i. 7 The whitefoot is essentially a clean creature and a friendly neighbor, but the house mouse is a dirty nuisance.

2004 B. Gilbert Nat. Coincidence i. 7 There were two mouse cages, one of whitefoots and the other of meadow voles, to watch, feed and anthropomorphize with.

2007 Country Life Amer. Jan. 290/2 Whitefoot is a very silent mouse.

Derivatives

ˈwhitefootism n. the principles or practices of the Whitefeet (sense B. 2).

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > principles or policies

whiteboyism1777

Defenderism1795

United Irishism1800

republicanism1807

Orangeism1811

Rockism1824

repeal1830

unionism1831

whitefootism1832

West Britonism1841

Young Irelandism1846

Home Rule1858

Fenianism1866

Land-leaguism1881

nationalism1885

Sinn Feinism1907

partition1919

Ulsterization1977

1832 Rep. Select Comm. Ireland 139 in Parl. Papers 1831–2 (H.C. 677) XVI. 1 If they continue suffering under hardships..Whitefootism will revive again.

1865 Morning Post 9 Sept. 3/5 What is Fenianism? It is the embodiment and resuscitation of Rockism, Whiteboyism, Terryaltism, Whitefootism, and all the other Popishisms which have existed in unfortunate Ireland for more than 200 years.

1998 K. Kenny Making Sense Molly Maguires i. 16 In evidence taken before a committee of the House of Lords in 1839..‘Ribandism’ or ‘Ribbonism’ was identified with ‘Whitefootism’, ‘Blackfootism’, ‘Terryaltism’, ‘Rockiteism’, and even trade unionism.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	whitefoot
释义	whitefootadj.n. Brit. /ˈwʌɪtfʊt/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌfʊt/ Inflections: Plural whitefeet, (chiefly in sense B. 4) whitefoots. Forms: see white adj. and n. and foot n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., foot n. Etymology: < white adj. + foot n.Also attested early as a surname: William Whitfot (1268), John Weytefot (1327), etc. A. adj. Having white or pale feet. Chiefly as an epithet with connotations of freshness or youth.In Old English only in glosses rendering otherwise unattested post-classical Latin albipedius, apparently lit. ‘white-footed’. The precise meaning and reference of the Latin word is uncertain. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > streaked or marked with white > white- or silvery-footed whitefooteOE white-footedc1450 silver-footed1620 eOE Épinal Gloss. (1974) 5 Albipedius, huitfot [eOE Cleopatra Gloss. hwitfot]. 1821 C. Webbe Summer 35 The first dew-drops shed by a fresh, sweet blossom, Bowing to white-foot May. 1868 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason (ed. 2) ii. 27 White-foot Ino smiling, sat alone. 1935 J. Mackay Vigil & Other Poems 38 Three arrows took the white-foot Dawn From out her heavenly quiver, And aimed into the living sea Across a pallid river. B. n. 1. A white marking on a horse's foot; a horse's foot with such a marking. Cf. white sock at sock n.¹ 2b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > foot or spec. foot > marking on whitefoot1587 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > foot or spec. foot > marking on > horse defined by whitefoot1587 balzan1660 1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell ii. 169 To haue for his beautie, a white in his forehead, or a white fether on his nose, either else a white foote behinde, with a small head, short ears, [etc.]. 1609 N. Morgan Perfection of Horse-manship xi. 30 When a horse hath a white foote or a white marke, they say he is excellent good, and him the Italian calleth Balzano. 1690 London Gaz. No. 2575/4 A black Mare with 3 white Feet, and a bald Face. 1702 W. Hope tr. J. de Solleysel Compl. Horseman (new ed.) 67 Ermined white Feet are those which are freckled with little black Spots round the Coronets: an excellent Mark. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. White-Foot..called in French Balzane, is a white mark that happens in the feet of a great many horses, both before and behind, from the fetlock to the coffin. 1855 Southern Cultivator 13 120/2 Four white feet and a white nose—Take off his hide and feed him to the crows. 1916 J. Clark Shoeing & Balancing Light Harness Horse ii. 16 The wall of the white foot is finer, thinner and weaker than the dark foot. 1955 Life 9 May 140/2 (caption) The favorite at 8–5, Nashua has one white foot and a charitable nature. 2000 J. Smiley Horse Heaven xxiii. 158 She [sc. the filly] was dark, but she had a fan-shaped white star between her eyes..as well as one white foot, the left hind. 2. Usually with capital initial. In plural Whitefeet. A member of an agrarian protest organization active in Ireland in 1830–4, whose chief grievances were the payment of tithes and rents, and the expulsion of the peasantry from the land. Also attributive. Cf. white boy n. 4. Now historical.The Whitefeet were one of a number of contemporary protest organizations; they were partly modelled on the earlier Whiteboys, and employed similarly violent methods. Their objection to tithes was aggravated by the perceived failure of the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations > members of hougher1712 white boys1762 Steel boy1772 defender1788 United Irishman1791 Orangeman1796 marksman1800 Thresher1806 marchman1814 Orangist1822 Rockite1824 Brunswicker1828 Terry Alt1831 whitefoot1831 Repeal Warden1841 Young Irelander1844 Fenian1864 Land-leaguer1878 invincible1883 leaguer1892 Provie1972 1831 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 20 Oct. 1/4 On the night of Monday week, the house of Mr. Hayden, of Knockatrina Wood, near Durrow, was attacked by a party of Whitefeet. 1833 Morning Post 8 Mar. 1/3 James Jackman, a Whitefoot, for attacking the house of one Roche, and killing him, is to be hanged on Monday. 1887 Church Q. Rev. July 294 The Whitefeet outrages..afflicted Dr. Doyle beyond conception. 1955 Studies: Irish Q. Rev. 44 326 The secret societies of Blackfeet, Whitefeet and Terryalts..were particularly active in Carlow, Kilkenny and Queen's County..around 1830. 2003 N. Pelling Anglo-Irish Relations, 1798–1922 ii. 30 Any number of similar bands—with names like The Whitefeet, The Threshers, The Rockites and so forth—had proliferated, helping to earn for Ireland a reputation for lawlessness. 3. A small European moth with a white angled mark on the brown forewing, Epiblema foenella (family Tortricidae). Also attributive in whitefoot tortrix. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Eucosomidae > spilonota foenella whitefoot1832 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 161 The Whitefoot (S[pilonota] fœnella..). Wings..dusky brown,..with a large medial hook-shaped white band. 1851 List Specimens Brit. Animals Brit. Mus.: Hymenoptera Aculeata 47 Halonota fœnella. The White-foot T[ortrix]. 1907 W. F. Kirby Butterflies & Moths Europe Pl. lv (caption) Halonota Fœnella—White Foot Tortrix. 4. A white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Peromyscus (deer-mouse) white-footed mouse1827 deer-mouse1840 vesper mouse1859 old-field mouse1898 rock mouse1904 whitefoot1912 1912 Country Life Amer. 1 July 40/3 Frightened by your investigation of the nest, the white-foot leaps out. 1962 H. Borland Beyond Your Doorstep i. 7 The whitefoot is essentially a clean creature and a friendly neighbor, but the house mouse is a dirty nuisance. 2004 B. Gilbert Nat. Coincidence i. 7 There were two mouse cages, one of whitefoots and the other of meadow voles, to watch, feed and anthropomorphize with. 2007 Country Life Amer. Jan. 290/2 Whitefoot is a very silent mouse. Derivatives ˈwhitefootism n. the principles or practices of the Whitefeet (sense B. 2). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > principles or policies whiteboyism1777 Defenderism1795 United Irishism1800 republicanism1807 Orangeism1811 Rockism1824 repeal1830 unionism1831 whitefootism1832 West Britonism1841 Young Irelandism1846 Home Rule1858 Fenianism1866 Land-leaguism1881 nationalism1885 Sinn Feinism1907 partition1919 Ulsterization1977 1832 Rep. Select Comm. Ireland 139 in Parl. Papers 1831–2 (H.C. 677) XVI. 1 If they continue suffering under hardships..Whitefootism will revive again. 1865 Morning Post 9 Sept. 3/5 What is Fenianism? It is the embodiment and resuscitation of Rockism, Whiteboyism, Terryaltism, Whitefootism, and all the other Popishisms which have existed in unfortunate Ireland for more than 200 years. 1998 K. Kenny Making Sense Molly Maguires i. 16 In evidence taken before a committee of the House of Lords in 1839..‘Ribandism’ or ‘Ribbonism’ was identified with ‘Whitefootism’, ‘Blackfootism’, ‘Terryaltism’, ‘Rockiteism’, and even trade unionism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.eOE
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