| 单词 | to hotfoot one's way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hotfoot one's way 1. intransitive. To go hotfoot; to make haste. Also (occasionally) transitive, with it, or in to hotfoot one's way. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with urgent speed rempeOE fuseOE rakeOE hiec1175 i-fusec1275 rekec1275 hastec1300 pellc1300 platc1300 startc1300 buskc1330 rapc1330 rapec1330 skip1338 firk1340 chase1377 raikc1390 to hie one's waya1400 catchc1400 start?a1505 spur1513 hasten1534 to make speed1548 post1553 hurry1602 scud1602 curry1608 to put on?1611 properate1623 post-haste1628 whirryc1630 dust1650 kite1854 to get a move on1888 to hump it1888 belt1890 to get (or put) one's skates on1895 hotfoot1896 to rattle one's dags1968 shimmy1969 1896 G. Ade Artie iii. 22 I hot-foots up to the dance. 1896 G. Ade Artie xvii. 154 I'll come hot-footin' in here with my knee-pants and a dinky coat. 1906 Dial. Notes 3 141 Hotfoot it, to hasten. 1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter ii. 34 Great Scott and Maria, you must have hot-footed it away from your vittles, young man! 1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) vii. 214 When O'Dowd did hear..he would hot-foot out to Quilty and make the sale. 1951 Manch. Guardian Weekly 18 Jan. 15 He short-circuits Mr. Kingley's pedestrian approach and makes a bee-line for Koestler's original like the prodigal hot-footing it home. 2000 R. Anderson Slight Return in Ice Age 175 Jimi hotfooted his way down the corridor, solely for the sake of his own entertainment. 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 25 I grab my leather jacket, hotfoot downstairs and hoy a couple of Solpadeines down my throat to kill the curse-cramps. < as lemmas |
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