hotfoot
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hotfoot
Where it comes from
From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
noun hotfoots
- The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.
adjective
- Moving with haste or zeal. Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.
adverb
- Hastily; without delay.
verb hotfoots · hotfooting · hotfooted
- To run (a distance). He hotfooted the four-and-a-half blocks across town to the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and checked out the books Patterson had mentioned—and everything else about China he could quickly think of.
Translations
Talk about this word "hotfoot." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hotfoot. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. hotfoot. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/hotfoot "hotfoot." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/hotfoot.Cite this
@misc{hotfoot_2026,
title = {hotfoot},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hotfoot},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
