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