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hotfoot

English

Etymology

From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot +? foot.

Noun

hotfoot (plural hotfoots)

  1. (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.

Adjective

hotfoot

  1. Moving with haste or zeal.
    • 1938, Elwyn Brooks White, The Fox of Peapack, and Other Poems (page 137)
      Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.

Adverb

hotfoot

  1. (Britain) hastily; without delay.
Translations

Verb

hotfoot (third-person singular simple present hotfoots, present participle hotfooting, simple past and past participle hotfooted)

  1. (transitive) To run (a distance).
    • 2007, R.C. Harvey, Meanwhile...
      He hotfooted the four-and-a-half blocks across town to the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and checked out the books Patterson had mentioned—and everything else about China he could quickly think of.
    • 2010, Eric Hammel, Coral and Blood: The U.S. Marine Corps’ Pacific Campaign (page 55)
      The Ford was shot up heavily, so Larkin hotfooted the last mile to Ewa. Once there, he took cover beneath a truck as unchallenged Zeros strafed the neatly parked MAG-21 aircraft and the base facilities.

Derived terms

  • hotfoot it
  • hotfoot spell
Translations

Anagrams

  • foothot

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slither

English

Etymology

From Middle English slitheren, alteration of slideren (to slither, creep), from Old English slidrian (to slip, slide, slither), from Proto-West Germanic *slidr?n (to slide, slither), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd?- (to slip), equivalent to slide +? -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch slidderen (to slip, wriggle, slither), German schlittern (to slither, skid). More at slide.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?sl?ð.?(?)/
  • Rhymes: -?ð?(r)

Verb

slither (third-person singular simple present slithers, present participle slithering, simple past and past participle slithered)

  1. (intransitive) To move about smoothly and from side to side.
  2. (intransitive) To slide
    • 2003, J. Flash, An American Savage
      I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween my fingers.

Derived terms

  • aslither
  • slitherlink
  • Slytherin

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

slither

  1. (archaic) slithery; slippery

Noun

slither (uncountable)

  1. A limestone rubble.
  2. (nonstandard, see usage notes) A sliver.

Usage notes

The use of slither to mean sliver, which is prevalent especially in Britain (where th-fronting is becoming more and more prevalent), is considered by many to be an error, though at least one major dictionary merely labels it "informal" [1].

See also

  • sliver

Anagrams

  • Hirtles, Hitlers, Shitler, relisht

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