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stepping foot

stepping foot is the present participle and gerund of step foot.

Meaning of step foot

Verb

step foot (third-person singular simple present steps foot, present participle stepping foot, simple past and past participle stepped foot)

  1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Eggcorn of set foot.
    • This was a pleasure of no small kind; and in stepping foot again upon the soil of that country, which contains much that I prize, and more that I admire1813, Washington Irving, “Sketches of an Excursion from Edinburgh to Dublin”, in The Analectic magazine, page 480

Questions about stepping foot

What is stepping foot the present participle and gerund of?
Stepping foot is the present participle and gerund of step foot.

Words near stepping foot in the dictionary

  1. stepping
  2. stepping aside
  3. stepping back
  4. stepping between
  5. stepping feet illusion
  6. stepping foot
  7. stepping forward
  8. stepping in
  9. stepping into
  10. stepping into someone's shoes
  11. stepping into the breach

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