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单词 round-heeled
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round-heeledadj.

Brit. /ˌraʊn(d)ˈhiːld/, U.S. /ˈraʊn(d)ˌhild/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: round adj., heeled adj.1
Etymology: < round adj. + heeled adj.1 Compare round heel n.
1. That has a rounded heel.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [adjective] > types of
long-footed1552
tender-footed1682
flat1697
round-heeled1772
neat-footed1870
cat-footed1883
1772 S. Freeman Farrier's Vade Mecum lxvi. 117 If a Horse be naturally Round-heeled.
1850 Boston Daily Atlas 20 Sept. She had a round-heeled rudder with some new backing on it.
1908 W. Johnson Folk-memory 199 It must be confessed that the round-heeled gun-flint and strike-a-light of France seem to link up a little better with the horse-shoe scraper.
1958 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Antiquaries Ireland 88 148 The Corkey vessel was associated with a round-heeled riveted dagger and a small bronze knife was found with the vessel from Keenoge, Co. Meath.
2008 R. Karnopp Wind Song i. 19 First, look at the footprints. They ain't boots, they're moccasins. By the looks of them—round, narrow instep, round-heeled, with no fringes dragging on the ground, they'd be Crow.
2. Originally U.S. (Cf. round heel n.)
a. Easily persuaded, outwitted, or overpowered.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [adjective] > accepting without question
mistrustless1586
unsuspicious1586
unmistrustful1587
unmistrusting1595
unsuspecting1595
unsuspicious1595
suspectless1605
implicit faith1610
distrustless1611
confidenta1616
suspicionlessc1650
undistrustful1654
unspeculative1660
unquestioning1697
unsuspectful1781
pin-faith1800
questionless1821
unspeculating1828
unsceptical1851
round-heeled1920
pistic1923
1920 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 1 Oct. 10/7 ‘The gambler goes around and fixed up a round-heeled series.’ ‘What's that?’ ‘A push over. A man with round heels can be pushed over very easily.’
1955 Washington Post 23 Sept. 61/1 The Rock fears nothing physical, but he knows that fighters wind up round-heeled sometimes, and that, he fears.
1985 B. J. Wattenberg Good News is Bad News is Wrong (rev. ed.) xxxiii. 254 Do we really need—or want—round-heeled labor unions? Or round-heeled government regulators? Or protectionism?
2010 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 25 Apr. 106 The Labor state and territory leaders..showed nothing but round-heeled acquiescence to party politics.
b. Of a woman: sexually promiscuous; giving in easily to demands for sexual intercourse.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > unchaste or sexually compliant (of women)
strumpeta1382
jadish1573
comingc1576
short heeled1591
loose in the hilts1598
loose-legged1598
loose-tailed1598
light-tailed1600
overscutched1600
stuprous1603
light-skirted1607
brothelly1608
light-heeled1611
wagtailed1648
loose-hilteda1652
feather-heeleda1674
loose-gowneda1717
frank1744
shake-tail1782
(a woman) of a certain description1803
hetaeric1868
round-heeled1926
floozy?1930
trampy1944
slack1951
slaggy1973
1926 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 1 Apr. 3/2 She hated all the generations of round-heeled daughters of Eve by whose records man could prove his rooster boast.
1957 J. Kerr Please don't eat Daisies 118 I know I'm just a broad, Mike. I'm a round-heeled babe.
1975 ‘R. Rostand’ D'Artagnan Signature (1976) xiv. 83 You said that as if I'm some round-heeled little chippie who dragged you to the floor.
2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 85 The restaurant business does have somewhat more relaxed mores about casual sex, and there are a number of round-heeled waitresses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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