lightfoot
See also: Lightfoot
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English light-fot, light-foot, from light (adjective) + fot, foot (noun).[1] See more at light, foot.
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: lītʹfo͝ot
- Hyphenation: light‧foot
Adjective edit
lightfoot (not comparable)
- (poetic) Light-footed.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- There was no comfort in the goodliness of spring or the bright sunshine weather, and she who had been wont to go about the doors lightfoot and blithe was now as dowie as a widow woman.
- 1906, original 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
- There she alighted from her light-foot beast, / And sitting downe upon the rocky shore, / Bade her old Squire unlace her lofty creast […]
References edit
- ^ “light-fọ̄t, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 25 November 2019.