footed

Having a foot or feet; (in combination) having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet.

Adjective

  1. Having a foot or feet; (in combination) having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet.
    • Scarsely had Phœbus in the glooming East / Yet harnessed his firie-footed teeme, / Ne reard above the earth his flaming creast; - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John...
    • This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find / The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late / Tie leaden pounds to's heels. - c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William...
    • To maintaine therefore that sconce of thine, strongly guarded, and in good reparation, never suffer combe to fasten his teeth there: let thy haire grow thick and bushy like a forest, or some wildernesse; lest those...
  2. Consisting of, or having been put into, metrical feet (of a specified character or number).
    • 2003, Tony K. Stewart, Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore, The Lover of God, Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, p. 12, As for the strict forms in which the original poems were written, it seemed an empty exercise...
    • each six-footed line of the verse
  3. Having a foot

Origin

From Middle English foted, i-foted, equivalent to foot + -ed.

Forms

more footed most footed

Synonyms

feeted

Related

footedly

Derived

bare-footed barefooted bastard big-footed mouse big-footed mouse black-footed cat black-footed ferret black-footed rock wallaby brush-footed butterfly cat-footed clawfooted cloven-footed clubfooted club-footed comb-footed spider dragfooted duck-footed fiddle-footed fin-footed flatfooted flat-footed fleet-footed fleetfooted fleet footed footed drum

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of foot

Origin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.