Meaning

4 senses
  1. To trample with hooves.

  2. (colloquial)To walk.

    walk

  3. (informal)To dance, especially as a professional.

    dance in a professional capacity

  4. (colloquial, transitive)To kick, especially to kick a football a long way downfield with little accuracy.

Examples

31 sentences
  1. I'm not hoofing it.

    ruЯ не собираюсь идти пешком.

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  2. If nobody gives us a ride, we'll have to hoof it.

    Якщо нас ніхто не підвезе, то ми будемо змушені йти пішки

    ruЕсли никто нас не подвезёт, придётся топать пешком.

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  3. Hippogriff hooves make the finest gelatin.

    deAus den Hufen des Hippogryph lässt sich die feinste Gelatine herstellen.

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  4. The shoe fell off the horse's hoof.

    ruПодкова спала с копыта лошади.

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  5. Tom hoofed the ball up the pitch.

    deTom drosch den Ball in Richtung des gegnerischen Tores.

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Origin

Inherited from Middle English hof, houf, houve, hove, from Old English hōf, from Proto-Ger

Inherited from Middle English hof, houf, houve, hove, from Old English hōf, from Proto-Germanic *hōfaz (compare West Frisian hoef, Dutch hoef, German Huf, Danish hov, Norwegian hov, Swedish hov), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós (compare Sanskrit शफ (śaphá, “hoof, claw”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬟𐬀 (safa, “hoof”), possibly Czech, Polish kopyto).

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Forms

hoofs, hoofing, hoofed, hoofed
Base formhoof · to hoof
3rd person singularhoofs
Present participlehoofing
Past simplehoofed
Past participlehoofed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhoof
he, she, ithoofs

Past simpleLesson

all personshoofed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hoofed
he, she, ithas hoofed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hoof

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Relatedhoofer

See also

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