From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en].
**** Verb
[en]
1. [en]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], [enm], equivalent to [en].
**** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Having a foot or feet; [en] having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet.
2. * [I]
3. * [III]
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1609 | author= 吴语: Thomas Dekker (writer) | chapter=The Guls Hornbook | title=The Guls Hornbook and The Belman of London | location=London | publisher=J.M. Dent | year_published=1936 | page=27 | url=https://archive.org/details/gulshornbookbelm00dekk
|passage=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:}}
1. * [book=II]
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1892 | author=w:Cao Xueqin | title=w:Dream of the Red Chamber | translators=H. Bencraft Joly; Book II | chapter=LIII | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9604/pg9604-images.html
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1948 | author=w:Alan Paton | title=w:Cry, the Beloved Country | chapter=31 | publisher=Scribner | year_published=1987 | location=New York
|passage=[...] 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.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2005 | author=w:Helen Oyeyemi | title=The Icarus Girl | location=New York | publisher=Anchor | year_published=2006 | chapter=17
|passage=Jess [...] moved aside so that her father, sock- FOOTED and carrying
a plate with a sandwich on it, could reenter the sitting room.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] Consisting of, or having been put into, metrical feet (of a specified character or number).
3. * 2003 , Tony K. Stewart, Introduction to [Rabindranath Tagore] , _The Lover of God_ , Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, p. 12,
4. *: 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.
5. [en] Having a foot
***** Synonyms
- [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|bare-footed|front-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
|club-footed |clubfooted |comb-footed spider |dragfooted |duck-footed
|fiddle-footed |fin-footed |flat-footed|turtle-footed |flatfooted |fleet
footed |fleet-footed |fleetfooted |footed drum |footedness |four-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
|slowfooted |slow-footed |slue-footed |splay-footed |splayfooted |surefooted
|sure-footed |swift-footed |tickle-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
- [en]
** Middle English
*** Adjective
[enm]
1. [enm]