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hotfoot
English
Etymology
From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot +? foot.
Noun
hotfoot (plural hotfoots)
- (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.
Adjective
hotfoot
- 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.
- 1938, Elwyn Brooks White, The Fox of Peapack, and Other Poems (page 137)
Adverb
hotfoot
- (Britain) hastily; without delay.
Translations
Verb
hotfoot (third-person singular simple present hotfoots, present participle hotfooting, simple past and past participle hotfooted)
- (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.
- 2007, R.C. Harvey, Meanwhile...
Derived terms
- hotfoot it
- hotfoot spell
Translations
Anagrams
- foothot
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travel
English
Alternative forms
- travail (obsolete)
- travell (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See travail.
Displaced native Middle English faren (“to travel, fare”) (from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”)), Middle English lithen (“to go, travel”) (from Old English l?þan (“to go, travel”)), Middle English feren (“to go, travel”) (from Old English f?ran (“to go, travel”)), Middle English ?ewalken, iwalken (“to walk about, travel”) (from Old English ?ewealcan (“to go, traverse”)), Middle English swinken (“to work, travel”) (from Old English swincan (“to labour, work at”)). More at fare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?æv?l/
- Rhymes: -æv?l
Verb
travel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle travelling or (US) traveling, simple past and past participle travelled or (US) traveled)
- (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
- (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit
- (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
- (transitive) To force to journey.
- (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hooker to this entry?)
Conjugation
Synonyms
- fare, journey, reyse
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)
- The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
- (in the plural) A series of journeys.
- (in the plural) An account of one's travels.
- The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
- (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
Usage notes
- Used attributively to describe things that have been created or modified for use during a journey.
Synonyms
- (act of travelling): journey, passage, tour, trip, voyage
- (activity or traffic along a route or through a given point): traffic
- (working motion of a piece of machinery): stroke, movement, progression
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- travel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- travel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- travel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- retval, varlet
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.
Adjective
travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlere, indefinite superlative travlest, definite superlative travleste)
- busy
References
- “travel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.
Adjective
travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlare, indefinite superlative travlast, definite superlative travlaste)
- busy
References
- “travel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From traväl.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?træ????/
Noun
travel
- A jumble of tracks, footprints.
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