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footmeal

adv

Etymology

From Middle English footmele, fotmelen, from Old English fōtmǣlum (“step by step, by degrees”), dative plural of Old English fōtmǣl (“a foot-measure, one foot”), equivalent to foot + -meal.

  1. derived from fōtmǣl — “a foot-measure, one foot”
  2. inherited from fōtmǣlum — “step by step, by degrees”
  3. inherited from footmele

Definitions

  1. Step by step

    Step by step: incrementally, little by little, by degrees, one foot (measure) at a time.

    • Grandees must covet condos, since they let bids rip, And "spaces" measured footmeal now reach record tops.

  2. A fotmal.

The neighborhood

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