feet
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English feet, fet, from Old English fēt, from Proto-Germanic *fōtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *pódes, nominative plural of *pṓds (“foot”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fäite (“feet”), West Frisian fiet (“feet”), German Füße (“feet”), Danish fødder (“feet”), Swedish fötter (“feet”), Faroese føtur (“feet”), Icelandic fætur (“feet”).
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Noun edit
feet
- plural of foot
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC:
- There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
Derived terms edit
- a closed mouth gathers no feet
- at one's feet
- at the feet of
- beat feet
- burning feet syndrome
- chicken feet
- cold feet
- cover one's feet
- crow's feet
- crow's-feet
- cut the ground from under someone's feet
- dead on one's feet
- drag one's feet
- end-feet
- fall on one's feet
- fall over one's feet
- feel eight feet tall
- feel nine feet tall
- feel ten feet tall
- feel twelve feet tall
- feet dry
- feet-first
- feet first
- feet of clay
- feet on the ground
- feet wet
- find one's feet
- flat feet
- get cold feet
- get one's feet wet
- get to one's feet
- hold someone's feet to the fire
- itchy feet
- jump in with both feet
- kick one's feet up
- land on one's feet
- lay something at the feet of
- let the grass grow round one's feet
- let the grass grow under one's feet
- light on one's feet
- on one's feet
- out on one's feet
- plant one's feet
- put one's feet up
- quick on one's feet
- rushed off one's feet
- shake off the dust from one's feet
- shake the dust from one's feet
- six feet under
- stand on one's own two feet
- sweep someone off their feet
- take the weight off one's feet
- the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet
- think on one's feet
- to one's feet
- trip over one's own two feet
- two left feet
- under one's feet
- vote with one's feet
- washing of feet
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
feet
- (obsolete) Fact; performance; feat.
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