Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having winged feet.
- adjective Swift; fleet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Aliped; having winged feet; hence, rapid; swift.
- In conchology, pteropod.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having wings attached to the feet; ; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.
- adjective Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.
- adjective Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; -- said of the pteropod mollusks.
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Examples
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The wing-footed fruitcake would be too busy showing off his speed to notice.
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006
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The wing-footed fruitcake would be too busy showing off his speed to notice.
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006
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The wing-footed fruitcake would be too busy showing off his speed to notice.
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006
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The wing-footed fruitcake would be too busy showing off his speed to notice.
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006
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The wing-footed fruitcake would be too busy showing off his speed to notice.
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006
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Nike had done a gangbanger business, too, till wing-footed Hermes hit her with a copyright-infringement suit that showed every sign of being as eternal as the gods.
Counting Up, Counting Down Turtledove, Harry 2002
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The _stadium_ furnished its fleet runners, nimble as the wing-footed Mercury, -- fit types for his light and airy conceptions; while the arena of the athletes offered marvellous opportunities for the study of muscle and posture, to show its results in the burly limbs of Hercules or the starting sinews of Laocoön.
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The wing-footed steed is broken down in his speed, whilst the camel-driver jogs on with his beast to the end of his journey.
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Mercury, the wing-footed messenger, and Flora, the goddess of Spring, sought the center of the earth to bring back Proserpina to Ceres.
Classic Myths Mary Catherine Judd
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It was good to sit on the bank and watch a wing-footed Mercury do all the digits on the ice, and the girl ricochetting across the open as if she had sails.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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