foothot

adv

foothot

adv

Etymology From Middle English fot hot; equivalent to foot + hot.

1

Obsolete Without stopping or slowing down; immediately, at once.

  • Thenne there came two knyȝtes of Northgales / that one hyghte Hewe de la montayne / and the other syr Madok de la montayne / & they chalengyd sire launcelot foote hote / Syr Launcelot not refusyng hem but made hym redy1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:

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