英和和英

語源

hoof +‎ -ish

形容詞

hoofish (comparative more hoofish, superlative most hoofish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a hoof.
   • 1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South (page 56)

     This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet.

   • 1862, Mrs. Newton Crosland, Mrs. Blake: A Story of Twenty Years (volume 2, page 245)

     This spreading warmth, so freely shed, / Is token that ye are not dead, / Nor tranced beneath the hard, brute heel / Whose hoofish tread yet leaves you leal / To all the thoughts that gather round […]