footmeal

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footmeal

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From Middle English footmele, fotmelen, from Old English fōtmǣlum (“step by step, by degrees”), dative plural of Old English fōtmǣl (“a foot-measure, one foot”), equivalent to foot + -meal.

adverb

not comparable, rare Step by step: incrementally, little by little, by degrees, one foot (measure) at a time. Grandees must covet condos, since they let bids rip, And "spaces" measured footmeal now reach record tops.

noun footmeals

obsolete A fotmal.
Similar: little by little

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@misc{footmeal_2026,
  title = {footmeal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/footmeal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}