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Definition of hoof in English: hoofnounPlural hoofs, Plural hooves huːf The horny part of the foot of an ungulate animal, especially a horse. there was a clatter of hoofs as a rider came up to them Example sentencesExamples - Sometimes I can hear the horses whinnying, hooves clip-clopping up the street.
- The angry stamping of hooves brought her back to the present situation.
- The unicorn was the color of alabaster, except for the pure gold of his hooves and horn.
- The hooves of five stallions on a Cotswold stud farm were so badly overgrown that two of the animals had to be put down, a court heard on Monday.
- She was thinking about going back home when she heard hooves clatter on the bridge.
- Cyril paused to lift up one of the horse's hooves and check it for pebbles and mud.
- The sound of horse hooves pounding toward her made Annabelle look up in fright.
- Clip-clop, clip-clop went his hooves as he clattered over the wooden planks.
- The more it rained and the more the horses churned up the ground with their hooves, the worse it got.
- Worse still, due to bad roads the animals are often left with bleeding injuries and broken hooves.
- The road was dusty, dry from the summer heat and churned by the passing of hooves and feet.
- She heard the clopping of horse hooves but she didn't know where it was coming from.
- I closed my eyes, the horses hooves and the rocking of the carriage almost lulling me to sleep.
- With their teeth, hooves, horns and dung, wildebeest have literally cultivated the grasslands.
- Most of them show an animal with cloven hoofs and a beard like a goat, or sometimes a mane like a horse.
- The carriage slowed to a halt as Kaylen heard the clatter of hooves on cobblestone.
- She heard the horse hooves slow and she saw that they were coming to a stop at an inn.
- The two horses leapt over him, their iron shod hooves just mere inches from his body.
- The only sound I could hear was the clicking of our boots and the hooves of our horses.
- Some of the strongest kinds of glue in the world are made from the hooves of dead horses.
Synonyms foot, trotter, cloven hoof technical ungula, cloot
verbhoofs huːf [with object]informal 1Kick (a ball) powerfully. he hoofed the ball 70 metres Example sentencesExamples - Donegal hoofed the ball down the pitch with the wind carrying it to the visitors' five-metre line.
- Hildebrand hoofs the ball upfield and John Terry, who's been excellent tonight, heads the ball back into the Stuttgart half.
- It'll certainly give England's defenders plenty to think about while they're hoofing long balls up to Peter Crouch.
- When the ball had been hoofed into the main stand during play in the first half, who should pop up with it in his hands but chief executive Chris Robinson?
- Henrik Larsson sends a low cross fizzing into the Bulgaria box, but Predrag Pazhin does well to hoof the ball over his own bar and out for a corner, from which nothing comes.
- The days when you could just hoof the ball up to a striker have long since gone; even Wimbledon don't play by these tactics any more.
- As Smit said afterwards, the forwards felt afterwards that they owed a great deal to the way Du Toit was able to hoof the ball back into the Irish half.
- Even under pressure when the Portuguese were desperately trying to get back into the game he showed a lot of composure and didn't just hoof the ball forward.
- None of those players are ever asked to talk to Claire Tomlinson about why they hoofed the ball into their own net spectacularly from 20 yards, or why they failed to hit the net from two yards despite the absence of the goalkeeper.
- There can't be nine players hoofing the ball upfield from their own area any more, and if we play like that, then I don't fancy being part of it.
- They are not a team who will hoof the ball up the pitch and hope for something to break.
- A similar reliance on hoofing the ball towards Beattie when the team is struggling will not yield the points required for champions league football.
- On one occasion he turned a yellow card into a red one by needlessly hoofing the ball away after being flagged offside.
- Ray Cashley hoofed the ball into the net for Bristol City v Hull City in the 1973/74 season.
- Borough's plan appeared to be nothing more than hoofing the ball as far and as high as they could into the Morecambe penalty area.
- We switch from playing some good football to just hoofing the ball up the pitch into no-man's land.
- Then on Saturday Knottingley just hoofed the ball downfield, chased it and hoped for a lucky bounce, which they got.
- In fairness he can hoof the ball a huge distance but when your hooker can't throw and your catchers can't catch this is a ploy best avoided.
- Instead, he pulls ten men back and hoofs the ball long, to be chased or held up by a willing workhorse.
- It never really came and it seemed as if both Jones and Wilkinson were obsessed with hoofing the ball down the middle of the park.
- The ball is sent back to Ambrosio, who hoofs it up the field.
2hoof itGo on foot. I paid the check and hoofed it over to Jane Street Example sentencesExamples - Instead of hoofing it to a video store, go to the local library, where you can rent movies for almost half the price (some libraries even offer free rentals).
- After two months of pilot training, he flies to India, where he's forced to sell his plane and hoof it.
- Parking a few blocks from her old apartment, Delilah exited the car in favor of hoofing it the rest of the way.
- The bus wheezed up the road to the village of Naggar, where we disembarked, hoisted our packs, and started hoofing it.
- Why go with a guide instead of hoofing it on your own?
- A spanking new airport and swish metro system help, but the runners will probably find it easier to hoof it to the starting blocks.
- Most of our vehicles got shipped south, leaving me to hoof it.
- With a spring, he jumped out of the alleyway and hoofed it back to his apartment.
- I hoofed it to my parents' room to tell them the story.
- Two subway stops and a Metro ride later, we were in Jersey, hoofing it back to where the old man was.
- After getting off the tram to the hotel, I notice a coffeeshop right by the tram stop, so I hoof it to the hotel, check in, shower, and put on some blissfully fresh clothes, and then head right back to it.
- Although this is a business trip, I'll have a few hours to hoof it around London, and I am interested to know which places I can visit that have special appeal to Catholics.
- If you are required to keep your cart on the path, you can end up walking farther than you would have if you hoofed it.
Synonyms go by foot, go on foot, travel on foot, foot it, be a pedestrian - 2.1 Dance.
we hoof it reasonably fancily, and no one guffaws Example sentencesExamples - Fred's a smart alec sailor who bumps into his old flame while on shore leave, and it's not long before they're hoofing it to ‘Let Yourself Go’ and ‘Dance’.
- But, no, he really does run a dance club, and Maria is soon hoofing it in Geneva.
- Certainly it's nothing new to see older dancers still hoofing it.
- She tapped on tabletops and trod the backs of shirtless he-men, hoofing it up with Ginger Rogers and Bob Fosse.
Synonyms dance, jig, leap, jump, skip, bounce
Phrases 1(of livestock) not yet slaughtered. Example sentencesExamples - It made you gaze knowingly out over the herd as if you were calculating what they'd bring on the hoof at market.
- ‘It would be so much more humane to send them on the hook, and not on the hoof,’ said SPCA local manager Marie Eekhout.
- This all seemed to work well, but as well as this, according to the regulations, you must have a vet to first inspect all slaughter animals on the hoof - thus adding to the expense.
- Moreover, the settlers augmented the Aboriginal food supply by providing them with dogs to hunt kangaroos plus a plentiful supply of beef and lamb on the hoof.
- The continuing recovery of the live export trade resulted in the export on the hoof of 113,000 head, and increase of 67,000 head, but still well below the level of thirty years ago.
- The levy of 30% on cattle exported on the hoof, on the other hand, is aimed at discouraging the export of live animals from the country.
- In the past the production, distribution and circulation of buffaloes, both on the hoof and as meat, were controlled by the nobility and other wealthy commoners.
- It is also used by a number of exporters in the Irish livestock industry who ship cattle on the hoof to Lebanon, Egypt and Europe.
- Remember that we're talking about an animal that weighs all of 110 lb. on the hoof.
- He said livestock was judged on the hoof at the show and subsequently slaughtered at the East London abattoir.
2Without proper thought or preparation. policy was made on the hoof Example sentencesExamples - The spectacle of government policy being manufactured on the hoof left an indelible stain.
- They were instead consummate opportunists, wily politicians who made up policy on the hoof.
- It is worse when the government appears to make policy on the hoof.
- Unfortunately they look set to continue the trend of setting parking policy on the hoof, in response to short-term financial pressures rather than in accordance with a long-term vision.
- But too often, he appears to be making up crime policy on the hoof, like his decision today to release hundreds of criminals early because the prisons are full.
- Are we about to witness more policy made on the hoof, or is this merely evidence they are struggling to defend the indefensible against valid widespread public protest?
- One Scottish advertising director, who did not wish to be named, said: ‘It really has been devised on the hoof.’
- If you're a struggling authority, you court further disaster if you try to make policy on the hoof.
- He made up policies on the hoof with his spin doctors, sometimes minutes before appearing on television.
- So rather than doing it on the hoof, as it were, perhaps your Lordships would be minded to adopt our suggestion.
Derivatives adjective huːft Foot-and-mouth is a highly contagious viral disease which causes blisters and fever in hoofed animals. Example sentencesExamples - Dolphins, for example, descend from a hoofed mammal that adapted to life in the ocean about 50 million years ago.
- If they're lucky, the couple will catch sight of the mousedeer, which is the world's smallest hoofed animal and features in local folklore.
- Lions prey mostly on hoofed animals, although they occasionally consume fallen fruit.
- But people were not the only hunters of these large, hoofed mammals.
Origin Old English hōf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoef and German Huf. If a government makes policy on the hoof, it does so without proper thought and preparation. The original reference was to livestock that was alive and not yet slaughtered; the earliest example in print dates from 1818. The human foot is also treated like a cow's or horse's in the phrase to hoof it ‘to walk as opposed to ride’, which dates from as far back as the mid 17th century. To hoof meaning ‘to dance’, and hoofer ‘a dancer’ both arose in US slang in the 1920s.
Rhymes aloof, behoof, goof, pouffe, proof, roof, shadoof, spoof, Tartuffe, underproof, woof Definition of hoof in US English: hoofnoun The horny part of the foot of an ungulate animal, especially a horse. there was a clatter of hoofs as a rider came up to them Example sentencesExamples - The two horses leapt over him, their iron shod hooves just mere inches from his body.
- Worse still, due to bad roads the animals are often left with bleeding injuries and broken hooves.
- The unicorn was the color of alabaster, except for the pure gold of his hooves and horn.
- She was thinking about going back home when she heard hooves clatter on the bridge.
- The carriage slowed to a halt as Kaylen heard the clatter of hooves on cobblestone.
- The road was dusty, dry from the summer heat and churned by the passing of hooves and feet.
- The sound of horse hooves pounding toward her made Annabelle look up in fright.
- Sometimes I can hear the horses whinnying, hooves clip-clopping up the street.
- Some of the strongest kinds of glue in the world are made from the hooves of dead horses.
- I closed my eyes, the horses hooves and the rocking of the carriage almost lulling me to sleep.
- With their teeth, hooves, horns and dung, wildebeest have literally cultivated the grasslands.
- The hooves of five stallions on a Cotswold stud farm were so badly overgrown that two of the animals had to be put down, a court heard on Monday.
- The angry stamping of hooves brought her back to the present situation.
- Clip-clop, clip-clop went his hooves as he clattered over the wooden planks.
- The more it rained and the more the horses churned up the ground with their hooves, the worse it got.
- The only sound I could hear was the clicking of our boots and the hooves of our horses.
- Cyril paused to lift up one of the horse's hooves and check it for pebbles and mud.
- Most of them show an animal with cloven hoofs and a beard like a goat, or sometimes a mane like a horse.
- She heard the horse hooves slow and she saw that they were coming to a stop at an inn.
- She heard the clopping of horse hooves but she didn't know where it was coming from.
Synonyms foot, trotter, cloven hoof
verb [with object]hoof itinformal 1Go on foot. it was awfully hot, but we hoofed it all the way back Example sentencesExamples - I hoofed it to my parents' room to tell them the story.
- If you are required to keep your cart on the path, you can end up walking farther than you would have if you hoofed it.
- With a spring, he jumped out of the alleyway and hoofed it back to his apartment.
- Most of our vehicles got shipped south, leaving me to hoof it.
- Although this is a business trip, I'll have a few hours to hoof it around London, and I am interested to know which places I can visit that have special appeal to Catholics.
- After getting off the tram to the hotel, I notice a coffeeshop right by the tram stop, so I hoof it to the hotel, check in, shower, and put on some blissfully fresh clothes, and then head right back to it.
- A spanking new airport and swish metro system help, but the runners will probably find it easier to hoof it to the starting blocks.
- After two months of pilot training, he flies to India, where he's forced to sell his plane and hoof it.
- The bus wheezed up the road to the village of Naggar, where we disembarked, hoisted our packs, and started hoofing it.
- Instead of hoofing it to a video store, go to the local library, where you can rent movies for almost half the price (some libraries even offer free rentals).
- Two subway stops and a Metro ride later, we were in Jersey, hoofing it back to where the old man was.
- Parking a few blocks from her old apartment, Delilah exited the car in favor of hoofing it the rest of the way.
- Why go with a guide instead of hoofing it on your own?
Synonyms go by foot, go on foot, travel on foot, foot it, be a pedestrian - 1.1 Dance.
we hoof it reasonably fancily, and no one guffaws Example sentencesExamples - Fred's a smart alec sailor who bumps into his old flame while on shore leave, and it's not long before they're hoofing it to ‘Let Yourself Go’ and ‘Dance’.
- Certainly it's nothing new to see older dancers still hoofing it.
- She tapped on tabletops and trod the backs of shirtless he-men, hoofing it up with Ginger Rogers and Bob Fosse.
- But, no, he really does run a dance club, and Maria is soon hoofing it in Geneva.
Synonyms dance, jig, leap, jump, skip, bounce
Phrases 1(of livestock) not yet slaughtered. Example sentencesExamples - This all seemed to work well, but as well as this, according to the regulations, you must have a vet to first inspect all slaughter animals on the hoof - thus adding to the expense.
- In the past the production, distribution and circulation of buffaloes, both on the hoof and as meat, were controlled by the nobility and other wealthy commoners.
- He said livestock was judged on the hoof at the show and subsequently slaughtered at the East London abattoir.
- Remember that we're talking about an animal that weighs all of 110 lb. on the hoof.
- The continuing recovery of the live export trade resulted in the export on the hoof of 113,000 head, and increase of 67,000 head, but still well below the level of thirty years ago.
- It made you gaze knowingly out over the herd as if you were calculating what they'd bring on the hoof at market.
- The levy of 30% on cattle exported on the hoof, on the other hand, is aimed at discouraging the export of live animals from the country.
- Moreover, the settlers augmented the Aboriginal food supply by providing them with dogs to hunt kangaroos plus a plentiful supply of beef and lamb on the hoof.
- ‘It would be so much more humane to send them on the hook, and not on the hoof,’ said SPCA local manager Marie Eekhout.
- It is also used by a number of exporters in the Irish livestock industry who ship cattle on the hoof to Lebanon, Egypt and Europe.
2Without great thought or preparation. policy was made on the hoof Example sentencesExamples - But too often, he appears to be making up crime policy on the hoof, like his decision today to release hundreds of criminals early because the prisons are full.
- It is worse when the government appears to make policy on the hoof.
- Are we about to witness more policy made on the hoof, or is this merely evidence they are struggling to defend the indefensible against valid widespread public protest?
- One Scottish advertising director, who did not wish to be named, said: ‘It really has been devised on the hoof.’
- Unfortunately they look set to continue the trend of setting parking policy on the hoof, in response to short-term financial pressures rather than in accordance with a long-term vision.
- He made up policies on the hoof with his spin doctors, sometimes minutes before appearing on television.
- If you're a struggling authority, you court further disaster if you try to make policy on the hoof.
- So rather than doing it on the hoof, as it were, perhaps your Lordships would be minded to adopt our suggestion.
- The spectacle of government policy being manufactured on the hoof left an indelible stain.
- They were instead consummate opportunists, wily politicians who made up policy on the hoof.
Origin Old English hōf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoef and German Huf. |