hotfoot

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it. US
动词 v.
  1. To run (a distance). transitive
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
副词 adv.
  1. Hastily; without delay. UK

词形变化

hotfoots plural hotfoots present,singular,third-person hotfooting participle,present hotfooted participle,past hotfooted past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
词源 2
From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
词源 3
From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
词源 4
From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
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