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catsfoot

noun

Etymology

From cat's + foot. For its obsolete figurative sense, see cat's-paw.

  1. inherited from *pṓds✻
  2. inherited from *fōts✻
  3. inherited from *fōt✻
  4. inherited from fōt
  5. inherited from fot
  6. formed as catsfoot — “cat + foot”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of cat's-paw

    Synonym of cat's-paw: a foot of a cat; (figurative, obsolete) a person used unwittingly or through trickery by another.

    • ...like the Monkey, that took the Cat's Foot to pull the Chesnut out of the Fire...

  2. Synonym of ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea).

    • It is commonly called […] in English ground Iuie, Alehoofe, Gill creepe by ground, Tunehoofe, and Cats foote.

  3. Synonym of mountain cudweed (Antennaria dioica).

    • ...an Infusion made with the Heads of White Poppies, Cat's-foot, Colt's-foot, and Maiden-hair.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA