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wing-footed

wing-footed adjective: having wings on the feet; very fast.

Adjective

wing-footed (comparative more wing-footed, superlative most wing-footed)

  1. Having wings on the feet; very fast.
    • And his wingfooted coursers him did beare / So fast away that, ere his readie speare / He could advance, he farre was gone and past […].1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen, wing-footed wanderer.1918, W. B. Yeats, “Per Amica Silentia Lunae”, in Mythologies, New York: Macmillan, published 1959, page 332

Forms of wing-footed

comparativemore wing-footed
superlativemost wing-footed
alternative formwingfooted

Questions about wing-footed

What does wing-footed mean?
Wing-footed means having wings on the feet; very fast.
What part of speech is wing-footed?
Wing-footed is an adjective.

Words near wing-footed in the dictionary

  1. wing warping
  2. wing'd
  3. wing-and-wing
  4. wing-back
  5. wing-backs
  6. wing-footed
  7. wing-handed
  8. wing-nut
  9. wing-nuts
  10. wing-play
  11. wing-shell

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