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footpage

noun

Etymology

From foot + page.

  1. derived from pagus
  2. derived from παιδίον
  3. derived from pagius
  4. derived from paggio
  5. derived from page
  6. compounded as footpage — “foot + page”

Definitions

  1. A young man who is employed to run errands

    A young man who is employed to run errands; errand boy.

    • And the hill-king spake to his footpages twain. Time with me goes slow. — "Put ye the gray pacers now unto the wain," But that grief is heavy I know.
    • He turned, therefore, to his little footpage. ' Go swiftly,' quoth he, ' and bring me my golden harp.'

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for footpage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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