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单词 slow-footed
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slow-footedadj.

Brit. /ˌsləʊˈfʊtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌsloʊˈfʊdəd/
Forms: see slow adj. and footed adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: slow adj., footed adj.
Etymology: < slow adj. + footed adj.
That walks or goes slowly; slow-moving, slow-paced.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adjective] > moving slowly
slowa1398
slow-movingc1450
slow-bellied1554
lazya1568
slow-footed1587
slow-paced1594
leaden-footed1596
snaily1596
snail-paced1597
dragglinga1599
leaden-heeled1598
ambling1600
slow-foot1607
sluggisha1616
slow-pacing1616
tortoise-paced1623
slow-going1634
leaden-stepping1645
tardigradous1652
tardigrade1656
snail-crawleda1658
dawdling1773
loitering1791–2
slow-stepping1793
creepy1794
lugging1816
tortoise-footed1818
crawling1820
creepy-crawly1858
slowing1877
lead-foot1896
soodling1951
1587 W. Fulbeck Bk. Christian Ethicks sig. C.ii. The mindes of worldly Mammonistes are slowe footed, drooping and continually dreaming of the eternitie of their barnes.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. iv. 116 Ask not merely why Man is..slower-footed than the Beasts?
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 133 He who feeds on venison is..swifter..than the man who lives on..the slow-footed tame cattle.
1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 135 A man who handles sets of complex facts is necessarily slow-footed.
1892 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily 271 The pace of a regiment is the pace of its slowest-footed soldier.
1993 Hockey News (Toronto) 5 Feb. 7/2 It would almost certainly render slow-footed defensemen useless and force teams to build more around speed and skill than ever before.
2020 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 June 8 The agency's slow-footed and uncoordinated response to the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 was largely to blame for that outbreak's severity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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