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footmeal

footmeal adverb: step by step: incrementally, little by little, by degrees, one foot (measure) at a time.

Adverb

footmeal (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Step by step: incrementally, little by little, by degrees, one foot (measure) at a time.
    • Grandees must covet condos, since they let bids rip, And "spaces" measured footmeal now reach record tops.2001, Arnold Klein, Rangefinder & Powderhorn

Noun

footmeal (plural footmeals)

  1. (obsolete) A fotmal.

Synonyms of footmeal

Forms of footmeal

pluralfootmeals

Origin of footmeal

From Middle English footmele, fotmelen, from Old English fōtmǣlum (“step by step, by degrees”), dative plural of Old English fōtmǣl (“a foot-measure, one foot”), equivalent to foot + -meal.

Questions about footmeal

What does footmeal mean?
Footmeal means step by step: incrementally, little by little, by degrees, one foot (measure) at a time.
What part of speech is footmeal?
Footmeal can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near footmeal in the dictionary

  1. Footmans
  2. footmanship
  3. footmark
  4. footmarked
  5. footmarks
  6. footmeal
  7. footmeals
  8. footmen
  9. footmuff
  10. footmuffs
  11. footnail

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