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Webster 1913 Edition


Foothot

Foot′hotˊ

,
adv.
Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfoot.
Gower.
Custance have they taken anon,
foothot
.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Foothot

FOOT'HOT

,
adv.
Immediately; a word borrowed from hunting.

Definition 2024


foothot

foothot

English

Adverb

foothot (comparative more foothot, superlative most foothot)

  1. Without stopping or slowing down; immediately, at once.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xxviij, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
      Thenne there came two knyȝtes of Northgales / that one hyghte Hewe de la montayne / and the other syr Madok de la montayne / & they chalengyd fire launcelot foote hote / Syr Launcelot not refusyng hem but made hym redy

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