hoofish
adjEtymology
From hoof + -ish.
- inherited from *ḱoph₂ós✻
- inherited from *hōfaz✻
- inherited from hōf
- inherited from hof,houf,houve,hove
Definitions
Resembling or characteristic of a hoof.
- This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet.
- This spreading warmth, so freely shed, / Is token that ye are not dead, / Nor tranced beneath the hard, brute heel / Whose hoofish tread yet leaves you leal / To all the thoughts that gather round […]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hoofish. 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