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fleetfooted

adj

Etymology

From fleet + footed.

  1. inherited from foted
  2. compounded as fleetfooted — “fleet + footed”

Definitions

  1. Swift on one's feet.

    • It would take a few more beers, but when the liquid courage kicked in, his wobbly legs were unable to keep pace with the fleetfooted waitress, who rolled her eyes, smiling, and finally twirled away.
    • But the volume is also an introspective self-portrait, set down in the same fluent, fleet-footed prose that made his 1995 book “Dreams From My Father” such a haunting family memoir.”

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