different between hoof vs fourchette

English

Etymology

From Middle English hoof, hof, from Old English h?f, from Proto-Germanic *h?faz (compare West Frisian hoef, Dutch hoef, German Huf, Danish hov, Norwegian hov, Swedish hov), from Proto-Indo-European *?oph?ós (compare Sanskrit ?? (?aphá, “hoof, claw”), Avestan ????????????????? (safa, “hoof”), possibly Czech, Polish kopyto).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ho?of, ho?of, IPA^(key): /h?f/, /hu?f/
• Rhymes: -?f, -u?f

Noun

hoof (plural hoofs or hooves)

1. The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
2. (slang) The human foot.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 110):

     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. (geometry, dated) An ungula.

Derived terms

Related terms

• hoofed

Translations

Verb

hoof (third-person singular simple present hoofs, present participle hoofing, simple past and past participle hoofed)

1. To trample with hooves.
2. (colloquial) To walk.
3. (informal) To dance, especially as a professional.
4. (colloquial, football (soccer), transitive) To kick, especially to kick a football a long way downfield with little accuracy.

   Synonym: boot

Derived terms

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch hoofd, Middle Dutch hovet, from Old Dutch h?vit, from Proto-Germanic *haubud?. Doublet of sjef.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????f/

Noun

hoof (plural hoofde)

1. head

Derived terms

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hof, from Old Dutch hof, from Proto-Germanic *huf?.

Noun

hoof m

1. garden (an outdoor area containing one or more types of plants)

English

Etymology

From French fourchette.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f?????t/

Noun

fourchette (plural fourchettes)

1. (anatomy) A fork-shaped structure, specifically the fold of skin where the labia minora meet above the perineum (the frenulum labiorum pudendi).
2. A fork-shaped instrument or device, specifically the forked structure between two fingers of a glove.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

3. (surgery) An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the frenulum.
4. The wishbone or furculum of birds
5. The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
6. (card games) The combination of the card immediately above and the one immediately below a given card.

French

Etymology

fourche +? -ette

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu?.??t/

Noun

fourchette f (plural fourchettes)

1. fork (for eating)
2. diner, eater

   Hypernym: mangeur

3. wishbone
4. (statistics) margin
5. (chess) fork
6. band, bracket (as of taxes)
7. frog (part of a horse's hoof)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “fourchette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French fourchette.

Noun

fourchette f (plural fourchettes)

1. (Jersey) fork