hoof

CEFRB2

/hʊf/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The hard foot of a horse or similar animal.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An ungula.

Examples

  • I am so exhausted because I have padded the hoof for 4 hours.

  • The farrier fitted the shoe to the horse's hoof while the shoe was hot.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /huːf/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The human foot.

  2. The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.

  3. The heel of a loaf of bread.

More examples

In context

  • The goat playfully kicked a soccer ball with its hoof.

  • Get your hooves off me!

  • He is a huge man, six feet four on bare hoofs and composed of two hundred and seventy pounds of solid bone and muscle.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

Old English hōf Middle English hof English hoof 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).