Hoof

English

Noun

Hoof (plural hoofs or hooves)

1. The foot of an animal such as a horse, ox or deer.
2. (slang) The human foot.

Verb

Hoof (third-person singular simple present Hoofs, present participle Hoofing, simple past and past participle Hoofed)

1. To trample with hooves.
2. (colloquial) To walk.
3. (informal) To dance, especially as a professional.
4. (colloquial, soccer, transitive) to kick, especially to kick the football a long way downfield with little accuracy.

Synonyms

• (to kick): boot

Related terms

• hoofed
• hoofer
• hoof it
• horse’s hoof
• on the hoof
• cloven hoof

Verbs for Hoof

caulk—s; file—s; muffle—s; paw with—s; protect—s; shoe—s; stamp—s; trim—s; — clang; — clank; — clatter; —s clink; — drum; — furrow the ground; — pound; —roar ; —strikes ; —thuds.

Thesaurus

ambulate, ankle, arch, circumambulate, clog, clubfoot, dance, digit, dog, extremity, fetlock, foot, foot it, forefoot, forepaw, fox-trot, harefoot, heel, hoof it, hop, instep, jaywalk, jog on, leg, leg it, pace, pad, pastern, patte, paw, pedal extremity, pedes, pedestrianize, perambulate, peripateticate, pes, pied, prance, pug, shake, shimmy, shuffle, shuffle along, skip, sole, splayfoot, step, stride, stump it, tap-dance, toe, tootsy, traipse, tread, trip, troop, trotter, ungula, walk, waltz

Etymology

Old English hōf, from Proto-Germanic *hōfaz (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoef, German Huf, Swedish hov), from Proto-Indo-European *k̑oph₂ós (compare Russian копыто (kopýto) 'hoof', копать (kopát’) 'to dig', Avestan safa 'hoof', Sanskrit शफ (śapháḥ) 'hoof, claw').

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hʊf/, /huːf/, SAMPA: /hUf/, /hu:f/

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Translations

Noun

foot of an animal

Albanian: thundër (sq) Arabic: ظلف (ar) (Zilf) m., خف (ar) (khuff) m. Armenian: սմբակ (hy) (smbak), կճղակ (hy) (kč̣ġak), պճեղ (hy) (pč̣eġ) Basque: apo Belarusian: капыта (be) (kapýta) n. Bulgarian: копито (bg) (kopíto) n. Catalan: peülla f. Chinese: Mandarin: 蹄 (zh) (tí), 蹢 (zh) (dí) Croatian: kòpito (hr) n. Czech: kopyto (cs) n. Danish: hov (da) c. Dutch: hoef (nl) m. Esperanto: hufo (eo) Faroese: hógvur (fo) m. Finnish: kavio (fi), sorkka (fi) (hoof of artiodactyls) French: sabot (fr) German: Huf (de) m. Greek: οπλή (el) (oplí) f. Hebrew: פרסה (he) (parsa) f. Hungarian: pata (hu) Icelandic: hófur (is) m., klauf (is) f. Italian: zoccolo (it) m.

Japanese: 蹄 (ja) (ひづめ, hizume) Korean: 굽 (ko) (gup) Kurdish: sim (ku) m. Macedonian: копито (mk) (kopito) n. Norwegian: hov (no) m. Polish: kopyto (pl) n. Portuguese: casco (pt) m., pata (pt) f., pezunho (pt) m. Russian: копыто (ru) (kopýto) n. Scottish Gaelic: ladhar (gd) m., ìne (gd) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: копито (sh) n. Roman: kopito (sh) n. Slovak: kopyto (sk) n. Slovene: kopito (sl) n. Spanish: pezuña (es) f., casco (es) m. Swedish: hov (sv) c., klöv (sv) c. Taos: kòwmą̏celéna Turkish: tırnak (lit., nail; to express the hoof of a particular animal, give the animal's name first, then tırnağı: e.g., cow hoof = inek tırnağı) Ukrainian: копито (uk) (kopýto) n. Volapük: saf (vo) Galician: please add this translation if you can

slang: human foot

Finnish: sorkka (fi)

Italian: zampa (it)

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Limburgish

Noun

Hoof m.

1. garden (an outdoor area containing one or more types of plants)