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Definition of Splayfooted
1. Adjective. Having feet that turn outward.
Definition of Splayfooted
1. Adjective. Having a splayfoot or splayfeet ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Splayfooted
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splayfooted
Literary usage of Splayfooted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Economic History: Select Documents edited by Alfred Edward Bland (1919)
"Yes * and out of those nine, there were six who were splayfooted, ... the three
who were not splayfooted were worse upon their legs than those who were ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"... should have so much the air of a gentleman, and be so little like the splayfooted
Mr. Stickney of Salem, to whom he approximated so closely in doctrine. ..."
3. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1913)
"Delirious inebriates, sick harlots, humpbacked, spavined, pock-marked, splayfooted,
scorbutic cranks, male and female, some of them from France, ..."
4. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"But the modern giants are generally a sickly, knock-kneed, splayfooted, shambling
race, feeble in both mental and bodily organisation. ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... loud-spoken, splayfooted man, whose chief characteristics were his bad preaching,
his love of eating, his rapacity for augmentations (or as he termed it ..."
6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"An ugly, cross-made, splayfooted, shapeless little dumpling of a fellow, with a
featureless face too—except indeed a good expansive forehead—sleek ..."
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