fleetfooted
adjEtymology From fleet + footed.
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Swift on one's feet.
- It would take a few more beers, but when the liquid courage kicked in, his wobbly legs were unable to keep pace with the fleetfooted waitress, who rolled her eyes, smiling, and finally twirled away.2007 August 12, Andrew Gensler, “Dancing Away the Heartache, Tacos Included”, in New York Times:
- But the volume is also an introspective self-portrait, set down in the same fluent, fleet-footed prose that made his 1995 book “Dreams From My Father” such a haunting family memoir.”2020 December 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- fleetfootedness