different between hoof vs trotter

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 Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Noun

trotter (plural trotters)

1. One who trots.
   • 2013, Stephen Dobyns, Saratoga Bestiary

     Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.

2. In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.
3. The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped.
4. (slang) A person's foot.
   • 2004, Charley Hester, ?Kirby Ross, The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-popping Cow Waddy (page 27)

     Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.

5. (Britain, historical) A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.
   • 1830, William Cobbett, Eleven Lectures on the French and Belgian Revolutions (page 8)

     One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^[sic] of his county.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French trotter, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trott?re, *trot?re (“to go”), from Frankish *trott?n (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trud?n?, *trudan?, *tradjan? (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreu-, *der?-, *dr?- (“to run, escape”). Cognates: see English trot. More at tread.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.te/

Verb

trotter

1. (usually of a horse) to trot

Conjugation

Derived terms

• trottiner
• trottoir

Further reading

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