foothot
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English fot hot; equivalent to foot + hot.
Adverb
[edit]foothot (comparative more foothot, superlative most foothot)
- (obsolete) Without stopping or slowing down; immediately, at once.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “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 sire launcelot foote hote / Syr Launcelot not refusyng hem but made hym redy
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