feeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From feet + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Millepedes, The hundred-feeted Creature, and Heſlog-ſows, or Hog-lice.
ref: 1681, “A Table of all the hard words derived from the Greek and Latin, of all Terms of Art and other words not vulgarly received, with the explanation of them”, in The Remaining Medical Works of That Famous and Renowned Physician Dʳ Thomas Willis […], London: […] T. Dring, C. Harper, j. Leigh, and S. Martyn:
text: He was afraid of everything, even his “feeted” pajamas, and he couldn’t go to sleep, it seemed, unless he could hold Miss Martin’s hand for a long time.
ref: 1958, Edith J[osephine] Agnew, Leo of Alaska, New York, N.Y.: Friendship Press, published 1959, →LCCN, page 70:
text: It coordinates with one of those “feeted” pajamas with a shirred bib front.
ref: 1970 September 12, Jan Irwin Sadd, “The Pajama Scene”, in Chicago Tribune, page 21:
text: Standing, eyes still half shut in cuddly feeted pajamas, holding onto the edge of a crib, with the creases from sleeping on the blanket in his cheeks.
ref: 1973, Babs H[odges] Deal, The Crystal Mouse, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, pages 30–31:
text: Residents agree that a little boy in feeted pajamas and with toys makes the dormitory feel like home.
ref: 1978 May 16, “Ole Miss dormitory son has loads of sisters for comfort, visiting”, in The Greenwood Commonwealth, 82nd year, number 116, Greenwood, Miss., page 3:
text: The player can either he a little boy in blue feeted pajamas, or a little girl in a pink nightgown.
ref: 1987, “First 3-D Adventure Game For Preschools”, in Sierra Newsletter, volume one, number 2, Sierra On-Line, Inc.:
text: They were both boys and wore feeted pajamas and the 2-year-old held the baby.
ref: 1993 November 2, Bob Lonsberry, “Reality peels glaze from sweet recall”, in Democrat and Chronicle, page 1B:
text: You know, the big old flappy, floppy, feeted pajamas.
ref: 2002, Maribeth Kuzmeski, Red Zone Marketing: A Playbook for Winning All the Business You Want!, Facts on Demand, →ISBN, page 18:
text: Let’s just hope I don’t start wearing feeted pajamas anytime soon.
ref: 2005 March 13, Scott Davis, “My style mentor wears diapers”, in The Item, volume 110, number 148, Sumter, S.C., page 5B:
text: The Chorus are ‘in a winged ship or carriage’ (Penguin) which they leave and ‘group themselves on the ground’ as Oceanus arrives ‘seated on a winged four-feeted creature’.
ref: 2006, J. Michael Walton, Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 72:
text: If you have children in your house, and they are this morning tugging at your covers and jumping up and down in their feeted pajamas and begging you to get up and go with them to the Christmas tree, by all means, arise!
ref: 2007 December 25, “Rising and rejoicing”, in The News & Observer, page 16A:
text: He woke suddenly, and sat up in his feeted pajamas and rubbed his eyes.
ref: 2010, Joanne Kathleen Farrell, “The Photographs”, in Liberty for the Lion Shield, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 289:
text: Moscelle and the rest of the hunting party were waiting, along with a dozen horsemen, men she knew from Ilissa’s parties, now wearing helmets and a closefitting, metallic garb that reminded her of the feeted pajamas that small children wear.
ref: 2013, Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 110:
text: When he arrives home after dawn, the child will be sleeping, rows of onesies and socks and feeted pajamas Mrs. O’Connor has washed by hand hanging on a wooden drying rack she has her husband bring up from her own apartment.
ref: 2013, Lisa Gornick, Tinderbox, New York, N.Y.: Sarah Crichton Books, →ISBN, page 232:
text: Bathed and dressed for bed in feeted pajamas, she spread her arms as he held her aloft by material gathered behind her shoulders.
ref: 2014, John Warley, A Southern Girl, The University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: Having feet.
Synonyms: footed