footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtɪd/
rhymes: -ʊtɪd
Forms: form: more footed
form: most footed
Etymology: From Middle English foted, i-foted, equivalent to foot + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Scarsely had Phœbus in the glooming East / Yet harnessed his firie-footed teeme, / Ne reard above the earth his flaming creast;
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 2:
text: This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find / The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late / Tie leaden pounds to's heels.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: To maintaine therefore that sconce of thine, strongly guarded, and in good reparation, never suffer combe to fasten his teeth there: let thy haire grow thick and bushy like a forest, or some wildernesse; lest those sixe-footed creatures that breed in it, and are Tenants to that crowneland of thine, bee hunted to death by every base barbarous Barber; and so that delicate, and tickling pleasure of scratching, be utterly taken from thee:
ref: 1609, Thomas Dekker, “The Guls Hornbook”, in The Guls Hornbook and The Belman of London, London: J.M. Dent, published 1936, page 27:
text: Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled, / At certain revolutions all the damned / Are brought;
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 596-8:
text: On the east was only laid a single table. But there as well were placed carved screens, covered with dragons, and a short low-footed couch, with a full assortment of back-cushions, reclining-cushions and skin-rugs.
ref: 1892, Cao Xueqin, chapter LIII, in H. Bencraft Joly, Book II, transl., Dream of the Red Chamber:
text: […] the leaves fell from the trees till they stood as though it were winter, and the small tough-footed boys ran from shade to shade because of the heat of the ground.
ref: 1948, Alan Paton, chapter 31, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, published 1987:
text: Inside is one cozy room, half the kitchen area taken up by an ornate footed stove.
ref: 1990, Sharlene Baker, Finding Signs, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 140:
text: Perhaps the earliest drawing of a dragon, a footed snake with a humanoid head, apparently dated from the third millennium b.c.e.
ref: 2002, James H. Bunn, “Natural Forms of Carrier Waves in Traditional Cultures”, in Wave Forms: A Natural Syntax for Rhythmic Language, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 108:
text: Jess […] moved aside so that her father, sock-footed and carrying a plate with a sandwich on it, could reenter the sitting room.
ref: 2005, Helen Oyeyemi, chapter 17, in The Icarus Girl, New York: Anchor, published 2006:
text: Footed pajamas are good as well, especially once your baby starts to crawl and roll around.
ref: 2008, Eva Marie Stasiak, “Facts of Life”, in Your New Baby: Insider Secrets to Save Thousands on All Your Baby’s Needs, Atlantic Publishing, →ISBN, section “What Works Best in Baby Clothing”, page 111:
glosses: Having a foot or feet; (in combination) having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet.
examples: 2003, Tony K. Stewart, Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore, The Lover of God, Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, p. 12,
As for the strict forms in which the original poems were written, it seemed an empty exercise to force English into those particular strictures, which in Bengali literary tradition are richly associative but which in English are not. The familiar fourteen-syllable payār couplet with its aa bb cc rhymes and the more intricate three-footed tripadi of variable length and rhyme were the first casualties of the process.
each six-footed line of the verse
topics: human-sciences
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glosses: Consisting of, or having been put into, metrical feet (of a specified character or number).
glosses: Having a foot
raw_tags: of a vessel
Synonyms: feeted
Derived terms: bare-footed
barefooted
bastard big-footed mouse
big-footed mouse
black-footed cat
black-footed ferret
black-footed rock wallaby
brush-footed butterfly
cat-footed
clawfooted
cloven-footed
clubfooted
club-footed
comb-footed spider
dragfooted
duck-footed
fiddle-footed
fin-footed
flatfooted
flat-footed
fleet-footed
fleetfooted
fleet footed
footed drum
footedness
four-footed
front-footed
greater big-footed mouse
hand-footed
heavy-footed
heavy-footed moa
in-footed
lead-footed
leaf-footed
leaf-footed bug
left-footed
light-footed
long-footed potoroo
mouth-footed
one-footed
orange-footed scrubfowl
pale-footed bush warbler
Petter's big-footed mouse
pig-footed bandicoot
pink-footed goose
polt-footed
red-footed falcon
red-footed tortoise
right-footed
rough-footed
rough-footed mud turtle
slew-footed
slow-footed
slowfooted
slue-footed
splayfooted
splay-footed
sure-footed
surefooted
swift-footed
tickle-footed
turtle-footed
two-footed
unfooted
web-footed
webfooted
web-footed gecko
white-footed fox
white-footed mouse
whole-footed
wing-footed
wrong-footed
yoke-footed
Related terms: footedly