Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective On foot; walking.
- adverb & adjective In the process of being carried out; astir.
from The Century Dictionary.
- On foot; walking: opposed to on horseback, or in a carriage or other conveyance: as, he was mounted, but I came afoot.
- In a condition to walk about, as after sickness.
- Astir; stirring; about.
- In progress; in course of being carried out: as, there is mischief afoot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb On foot.
- adverb Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb On
foot . - adverb In
motion ; inaction ;astir ; inprogress .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb on foot; walking
- adjective currently in progress
- adjective traveling by foot
Etymologies
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Examples
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Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it.
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There will be more afoot, in other words, than sonic silliness.
IT TAKES TWO TO 'RANGO': Why the animated Depp hit is a very, very good film 2011
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But in the wider context, something greater is afoot, which is the assembling of all the institutions of State by which one may say "we have become an Independent Sovereign State".
Referendum News 2007
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But in the wider context, something greater is afoot, which is the assembling of all the institutions of State by which one may say "we have become an Independent Sovereign State".
Archive 2007-08-05 2007
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One thing I think is relevant, assuming there ` s a terrorist plot afoot, which is a very big assumption.
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But now the deer turned to the right and made for a distant thicket, and Lionel saw the young hunter spring from his lagging steed, and, with a stout cord reeled around his arm, dash after the stag afoot, while hounds and hunters panted far behind.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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The team looked fractured from order up on high at the end of the prior season, but something else was afoot which is revealed.
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Hartmann's article did not change my mind, but it did force me to realize that the issue is really "afoot," as they say.
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I rather liked the premise, it sounded like a good comedy to read during a vacation, but then you said "afoot".
HH Com 157 Miss Snark 2006
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With the evidence already gathered, the game is afoot, meaning this week is too late to stop sharing those movies and expect to get away with it.
super-julia commented on the word afoot
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K."
~ Ted
February 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word afoot
""Hi Girls, PLEASE you can use the shoes, because to walk naked afoot you disturb the people. THANKS GIRLS."
We stared at it in wonderment for a few minutes. Walking naked afoot? How could that possibly upset the elderly woman we'd come to learn lived below us? If she had complained about the loud music on the weekend, or the constant drone of the television, or let alone the revolving door of college girls who paraded through the apartment and chattered loudly in the staircase at all hours of the day, I would have conceded she was right. But bare feet?"
- Stephanie Peters, 'Le Scarpe'.
February 18, 2009
shanvrolijk commented on the word afoot
Strange things are afoot at the circle q
fig. on going, happening
Ms Marvel issue 3
March 1, 2018