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FOOTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having feet
Example:
a footed sofa
Classified under:
Similar:
flat-footed; flatfooted (with feet flat on the ground; not tiptoe)
pedate (having or resembling a foot)
fast-footed; swift-footed (having rapidly moving feet)
web-footed; web-toed (having feet with webbed toes)
Antonym:
footless (having no feet or analogous appendages)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb foot
Context examples:
He was taciturn, soft-footed, very quiet in his manner, deferential, observant, always at hand when wanted, and never near when not wanted; but his great claim to consideration was his respectability.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And each showed up the other’s points on account of the extreme contrast between them: the long, loose-limbed, deer-footed youngster, and the square-set, rugged veteran with his trunk like the stump of an oak.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I see genuine contentment in your gait and mien, your eye and face, when you are helping me and pleasing me—working for me, and with me, in, as you characteristically say, 'all that is right:' for if I bid you do what you thought wrong, there would be no light-footed running, no neat-handed alacrity, no lively glance and animated complexion.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
For Jo sat on the grass, with an encampment of boys about her, and a dirty-footed dog reposing on the skirt of her state and festival dress, as she related one of Laurie's pranks to her admiring audience.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Advise was his word, but it was the advice of absolute power, and she had only to rise, and, with Mr. Crawford's very cordial adieus, pass quietly away; stopping at the entrance-door, like the Lady of Branxholm Hall, one moment and no more, to view the happy scene, and take a last look at the five or six determined couple who were still hard at work; and then, creeping slowly up the principal staircase, pursued by the ceaseless country-dance, feverish with hopes and fears, soup and negus, sore-footed and fatigued, restless and agitated, yet feeling, in spite of everything, that a ball was indeed delightful.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“I’ll do for you yet, you slab-footed Swede,” I heard him say to Johansen one night on deck.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He, on the other hand, being the fastest-footed, was unafraid to venture anywhere.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Thus war was announced to the Bear, and all four-footed animals were summoned to take part in it, oxen, asses, cows, deer, and every other animal the earth contained.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"All right, you sore-footed brutes," he said.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Yet he faced his foemen with dauntless courage, dashing in, springing back, sure-footed, steady-handed, with a point which seemed to menace three at once.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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