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Flatfooted
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- 1 Alternative form of flat-footed.; Of an animal: having feet which are naturally flat; (specifically) of a horse: having hoofs with soles close to the ground.
"He claimed that Jews walk flatfooted like a camel—including me."
- 2 Alternative form of flat-footed.; Of a person: having the physical condition of flat feet (“a condition where the soles of the feet are in full contact with the ground, either because the arches have collapsed or because they never developed”).
"The figure came up and squatted flatfooted on his haunches next to Patsy. In the dim glow of starlight and streetlight he saw a wrinkled face and a silvery goatee."
- 3 Alternative form of flat-footed.; Blunt and unsubtle; lacking finesse; clumsy.
"This flatfooted sketch of how experience provides us with reasons has two nodes."
- 4 Alternative form of flat-footed.; Unprepared, unready. US, figuratively
"To those who are younger, perhaps still building a career, I say to you, plan for it! No one should be caught flatfooted by the lengthening of middle age"
- 5 Alternative form of flat-footed.; Direct, downright, straightforward; also, holding firmly to and maintaining a decision; standing one's ground. dated, figuratively, informal
"Proficient drinkers could spill out an ounce, or an ounce and a half, or two, from the neck of a Solo Soda bottle in the dark, measured to the very dram, refill it with corn whisky, turn it upside down with the thumb placed carefully over the bottle's lip—for a good mix, and luck—and drink it down, flatfooted."
- 1 forthright and explicit wordnet
- 2 with feet flat on the ground; not tiptoe wordnet
- 3 having broad flat feet that usually turn outward wordnet
- 4 unprepared and unable to react quickly wordnet
- 1 simple past and past participle of flatfoot (Alternative form of flat-footed). form-of, participle, past
Etymology
From flat (adjective) + footed (adjective).
From flatfoot + -ed (suffix forming past tense forms of regular verbs).
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