单词 | slow-footed |
释义 | slow-footedadj. That walks or goes slowly; slow-moving, slow-paced. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1587 |
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