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foothot

foothot adverb: without stopping or slowing down; immediately, at once.

Adverb

foothot (comparative more foothot, superlative most foothot)

  1. (obsolete) Without stopping or slowing down; immediately, at once.
    • Thenne there came two knyȝtes of Northgales / that one hyghte Hewe de la montayne / and the other syr Madok de la montayne / & they chalengyd sire launcelot foote hote / Syr Launcelot not refusyng hem but made hym redy1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX

Forms of foothot

comparativemore foothot
superlativemost foothot

Origin of foothot

From Middle English fot hot; equivalent to foot + hot.

Questions about foothot

What does foothot mean?
Foothot means without stopping or slowing down; immediately, at once.
What part of speech is foothot?
Foothot is an adverb.

Words near foothot in the dictionary

  1. footholds
  2. foothole
  3. footholes
  4. foothook
  5. foothooks
  6. foothot
  7. footie
  8. footies
  9. footin'
  10. footing
  11. footing it

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