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单词 rough-footed
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rough-footedadj.

Brit. /ˌrʌfˈfʊtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌrəfˈfʊdəd/
Forms: see rough adj. and footed adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rough adj., footed adj.
Etymology: < rough adj. + footed adj. Compare earlier rough-foot adj., row-footed adj. at row adj. Compounds.
1. Having feathered (or furry) feet. Chiefly in the names of birds and domestic varieties of them, as rough-footed cock, rough-footed pigeon, etc. Cf. rough-foot adj. 2, rough-legged adj.In quot. 2009: having rough scales on the feet.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > of feet > having feathered feet
rough-footed1495
feather-footed1580
row-foot1896
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xii. vii. sig. Aviii/2 Therfore rouh foted [a1398 BL Add. 27944 rowfoted, 1535 rough footed] douues brede well nyghe in euery month.
1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. vii. sig. Ci Ile giue thee fine ruffe-footed Doues to keepe.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cheveche,..th'ordinarie rough-footed, and short-taild Owle.
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 75 Alba, Lagopus,..the white and rough-footed Partridge.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 156 A rough footed Cock and Hen.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pigeon The tame Rough-footed ones differ not much from the wild [pigeons].
1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 709 Rough-footed Cock.
1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands I. 74 The principal [fancy pigeons] are the Barbary, the Laced, the Norway, the Rough-footed, [etc.].
1854 Poultry Chron. 1 460/2 These rough-footed Tumblers I found very plentiful in and about Coblenz.
1910 Nature 15 Dec. 208/1 At Rossitten numbers of hooded crows.., storks, rough-footed buzzards, and various species of Totanidæ..have been ringed.
1920 F. S. Allen Allen's Synonyms & Antonyms 178/2 Feather-footed, referring to a dog: rough-footed, rough-legged.
2009 C. H. Ernst & J. E. Lovich Turtles of U.S. & Canada (ed. 2) 490/2 The rough-footed mud turtle barely reaches the United States.
2. Scottish. Wearing shoes of undressed hide. Now historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing footwear > wearing shoes > wearing shoes made from specific material
row-footeda1398
rough-foota1425
rough-footed?a1501
wooden-footed1670
moccasined1829
saboted1862
row-foot1896
suede-shoed1936
suede-footed1938
?a1501 Aberdeen Sasine Reg. I. 774 Rocht futtit Scot quhat says thow.
a1529 J. Skelton Against Scottes (1843) 170 Of the out yles the roughe foted Scottes.
1542 in Bannatyne Misc. (1827) I. 13 They call ws in Scotland Reddshankes, and in your Graces dominion of England roghe footide Scottis.
1818 R. Jamieson in E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (ed. 5) I. 74 In the Lowlands of Scotland, the rough-footed Highlanders were called red-shanks, from the colour of the red-deer hair.
1825 W. Scott Talisman ii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 38 Though the rough-footed knaves be our enemies in Cumberland.
1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Queen's Maries I. iv. 55 Had you not rather be lying drunk in the filthiest gutter in Eastcheap than make your bed here on the heather, with a rough-footed borderer to pull your boots off?
1905 S. R. Crockett Maid Margaret of Galloway (ed. 3) xxxii. 263 Calling us no better than lowsy Scots and rough-footed rievers!
1998 Times 31 Aug. They [sc. the Scots] didn't wear kilts... They were ragged and rough-footed. By the 1330s it was their rough and hairy footwear that was infamous.

Compounds

rough-footed eagle n. Obsolete the lesser spotted eagle, Aquila pomarina, found from central Europe to South Asia.
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1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 63 Morphno congener,..the Rough-footed Eagle.
1775 S. Ward Mod. Syst. Nat. Hist. I. 80 The Rough-footed Eagle is of a dirty brown, spotted with white on the legs and under the wings.
1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 8 It [sc. the spotted eagle] is sometimes called the ‘Rough-footed Eagle’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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