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Footless

adj, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without feet.

    "The snake is a footless creature."

  2. 2
    Clumsy or inept. colloquial
Adjective
  1. 1
    having no feet or analogous appendages wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English fotles, from Old English *fōtlēas (only found as fēþelēas (“footless”)), from Proto-Germanic *fōtalausaz (“footless”), equivalent to foot + -less. Cognate with Dutch voetloos, German fußlos, Swedish fotlös, Icelandic fótalaus (“footless, legless”).

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