单词 | whitefoot |
释义 | whitefoot/ˈwʌɪtfʊt/noun 1A white marking on a horse's foot; a horse's foot with such a marking. Compare white sock. Now rare. 2Usually with capital initial. In plural Whitefeet. A member of an agrarian protest organization active in Ireland in 1830–4, whose chief grievances were the payment of tithes and rents, and the expulsion of the peasantry from the land. Also attributive Compare white boy. Now historical.
3A white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus. OriginOld English (in an earlier sense). From white + foot. |
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