slew-footn.
U.S. slang.
A person who walks with his feet turned out; a clumsy person. Also transferred.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of foot > person
stump-foot1593
slew-foot1896
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward
stubblea1300
lubber?1515
awkward1530
unwieldy1530
lubberlike1572
unwieldsome1579
lubberly1580
looby1582
wieldy1588
clumsy1597
ungainly1611
unqueme1611
untowardly1611
clouter-likea1624
hip-shot1642
loobish1648
loobily1655
bumble-arsed1661
clouterly1675
lubbard1679
fumbling1681
sinistrousa1682
maladroit1685
shammockinga1704
ungain1710
splay-footed1716
gawky1759
hobbledehoyish1812
uncouthly1821
nunting1836
shammocky1841
numb1854
awkwardish1860
slummocky?1861
numb-footed1867
gawkish1876
flat-footed1899
brontosaurian1909
shamblya1937
slew-foot1945
ham-footed1960
klutzy1961
dorkus1979
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > awkward or clumsy > with feet turned out
side-footed1861
slew-footed1922
slew-foot1945
1896 Bogert & O'Brien Slew Foot Sal (song) 3 I'll tell you of a lady, her name is Slew Foot Sal,..She's heavy and she weighs five-thirty-three.
1945 L. Saxon et al. Gumbo Ya-Ya xxiii. 496 She is hoping that her galloping, slue-foot, light-brown, lazy husband..will soon find a job.
Derivatives
slew-foot v.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > walk with feet turned out
slew-foot1950
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for Bier xx. 130 Haggis [sc. an Airedale] shrugged and slough-footed away.
1961 J. B. Priestley Saturn over Water iv. 53 Leaving your work to go slewfooting in South America.
slew-footed adj.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > awkward or clumsy > with feet turned out
side-footed1861
slew-footed1922
slew-foot1945
1922 F. S. Fitzgerald Beautiful & Damned i. iii. 122 A man in a striped blue suit, walking slue-footed in white-spatted feet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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