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SWIFT-FOOTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swift-footed mean? 

SWIFT-FOOTED (adjective)
  The adjective SWIFT-FOOTED has 1 sense:

1. having rapidly moving feetplay

  Familiarity information: SWIFT-FOOTED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SWIFT-FOOTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having rapidly moving feet

Synonyms:

fast-footed; swift-footed

Similar:

footed (having feet)


 Context examples 


He had gone some way, lost in doubt and in self-reproach, his mind all tremulous with a thousand new-found thoughts and fears and wonderments, when of a sudden there was a light rustle of the leaves behind him, and, glancing round, there was this graceful, swift-footed creature, treading in his very shadow, with her proud head bowed, even as his was—the picture of humility and repentance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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