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foot and mouth

foot and mouth is the ellipsis of foot-and-mouth disease.

Meaning of foot-and-mouth disease

Noun

foot-and-mouth disease (uncountable)

  1. A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.
    • So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for...1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], pages 301–302

Questions about foot and mouth

What is foot and mouth the ellipsis of?
Foot and mouth is the ellipsis of foot-and-mouth disease.

Words near foot and mouth in the dictionary

  1. foostherer
  2. foostherers
  3. foosthering
  4. foosthers
  5. foot
  6. foot and mouth
  7. foot ball
  8. foot balls
  9. foot bath
  10. foot baths
  11. foot brake

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