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ˌfoot-ˈhot, adv. ? Obs.
[f. foot n. + hot a. or adv.; the n. seems to be locative as in footsore; cf. the differently-formed synonym hot-foot.]
a. In hot haste, without pause or slackening of speed.
b. In the phrase to follow foot-hot, the adv. was sometimes taken to mean ‘closely’; hence it was used in other collocations to express mere proximity of situation.
c1320Seuyn Sag. (W.) 843 Als quik he dede his schon of drawe, And karf his vaumpes, fot-hot. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Paulus 1164 Paule..Is cumine till hyme now fut⁓hat. c1420Pallad. on Husb. ii. 228 So that thair apples riped with foothoote The semynaire be sette in. c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 150 Lett us ryn fote hote. 1470–85Malory Arthur ix. xxviii, They chalengyd sire launcelot foote hote. 1513Douglas æneis i. Prol. 287, I knaw quhat payne is to follow him fute haite. Ibid. xi. xvi. 37 Vnder the montane law thar stude fute hoit A byng of erth. 1576Turberv. Venerie 138 Those cruell curres..Which vowe foot hote to followe me. 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 415 Following him foot-hot, as we commonly say, before the barbarous People could take breath. |