Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having feet with webbed toes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Said of a horse which goes best on a muddy or very wet track.
- Having web-feet; being web-toed, whether as an abnormality of persons, or as the natural formation of the feet of many aquatic animals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having webbed feet; palmiped.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having
webfeet
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having feet with webbed toes
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Examples
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All born blind, they say, slack-jawed and simple, web-footed, rickety as sticks.
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“What's a nine-letter word for a large, web-footed seabird?”
Ambush billy robinson 2011
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All born blind, they say, slack-jawed and simple, web-footed, rickety as sticks.
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"Look closer and you may recoil in surprise/At web-footed fascists with mad little eyes"? failed to translate into a national anti-duck uprising.
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That duck can insist that it's something else -- say a patriotic, bald eagle -- but it's still web-footed waterfowl.
Michael B. Laskoff: The Real Tea Party Movement -- Speaking The Language of Self-Interest 2010
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That duck can insist that it's something else -- say a patriotic, bald eagle -- but it's still web-footed waterfowl.
The Real Tea Party Movement -- Speaking The Language of Self-Interest 2010
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"Be kind to our web-footed friends, for a duck could be somebody's mother."
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I was about to start singing "Be kind to your web-footed friends" but then I realized chickens don't have webbed feet.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jen 2009
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I was about to start singing "Be kind to your web-footed friends" but then I realized chickens don't have webbed feet.
Easter Potpourri Jen 2009
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When a web-footed yokel yells a slur through his remaining teeth from the back of a General Lee, it's like a living Norman Rockwell painting.
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