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hoof

noun
/hʊf/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós Proto-Germanic *hōfaz Proto-West Germanic *hōf Old English hōf Middle English hof English hoof Inherited from Middle English hof, houf, houve, hove, from Old English hōf, from Proto-Germanic *hōfaz (compare West Frisian hoef, Dutch hoef, German Huf, Danish hov, Norwegian hov, Swedish hov), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós (compare Sanskrit शफ (śaphá, “hoof, claw”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬟𐬀 (safa, “hoof”), possibly Czech, Polish kopyto).

  1. inherited from *ḱoph₂ós✻
  2. inherited from *hōfaz✻
  3. inherited from hōf
  4. inherited from hof,houf,houve,hove

Definitions

  1. The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick…

    The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.

    • […] I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.

  2. The human foot.

    • Get your hooves off me!
    • He is a huge man, six feet four on bare hoofs and composed of two hundred and seventy pounds of solid bone and muscle.

  3. An ungula.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. The heel of a loaf of bread.

    2. To trample with hooves.

    3. To walk.

    4. To dance, especially as a professional.

    5. To kick, especially to kick a football a long way downfield with little accuracy.

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Derived

ale-hoof, beat the hoof, beef on the hoof, beef to the hoof, brohoof, cloven hoof, empty-hoofed, facehoof, forehoof, hoof-and-mouth disease, hoofball, hoofbeat, hoofbound, hoof fungus, hoofish, hoofless, hooflet, hooflike, hoof-mark, hoofmark, hoofology, hoof pick, hoofprint, hoofrot, hoofstep, hoofstock, hoofy, hooved, horsehoof, horse's hoof, hot-hoof, iron hoof, on the hoof, pad the hoof, show the cloven hoof, steak on the hoof, underhoof, unhoof, hoofer, hoof it · +1 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hoof. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at hoof. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at hoof

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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