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noun A broad flat foot turned outward. Example sentencesExamples - Correcting his splay feet was not that simple.
- If I had splay-feet, it must be that I didn't take care each day to walk a straight line and wear the right shoes.
- Not only did Will suffer from scoliosis, his right leg was ‘shaped like a bow’ and he also had a splay-foot.
- Beautiful Dog rolled his eyes at his god, swung his tail, waggled his ears, made uncouth movements with his splay feet, and grinned from ear to ear.
Derivatives adjective ˌspleɪˈfʊtɪd Mickelson walked with a splay-footed agricultural style, often with a shy, rather silly half-smile on his face. Example sentencesExamples - In this case, both knees face outward leading to a toe out or splay-footed conformation, yet when the dots are connected they form a straight line.
- Yet I bet if I were to raise some trifling question about, say, the number of splay-footed widgeons in Somerset, I would have the answer in half an hour.
- She walked in a splay-footed manner and bumped into a post.
Rhymes afoot, clubfoot, foot, hotfoot, kaput, put, soot, underfoot, wrong-foot, Yakut nounˈsplā ˌfo͝otˈspleɪ ˌfʊt A broad flat foot turned outward. Example sentencesExamples - If I had splay-feet, it must be that I didn't take care each day to walk a straight line and wear the right shoes.
- Correcting his splay feet was not that simple.
- Not only did Will suffer from scoliosis, his right leg was ‘shaped like a bow’ and he also had a splay-foot.
- Beautiful Dog rolled his eyes at his god, swung his tail, waggled his ears, made uncouth movements with his splay feet, and grinned from ear to ear.
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