hoofs

English

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Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: ho͝ofs, IPA(key): /hufs/, /hʊfs/
  • Rhymes: -uːfs, -ʊfs

Noun

hoofs

  1. plural of hoof
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care […]

Verb

hoofs

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hoof

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Dutch

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Etymology

From Middle Dutch hovesch, whence also heus. Compare German hübsch. By surface analysis, hof (“court”) +‎ -s.

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Adjective

hoofs (comparative hoofser, superlative meest hoofs or hoofst)

  1. courtly, particularly in a medieval context

Declension

Declension of hoofs
uninflected hoofs
inflected hoofse
comparative hoofser
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial hoofs hoofser het hoofst
het hoofste
indefinite m./f. sing. hoofse hoofsere hoofste
n. sing. hoofs hoofser hoofste
plural hoofse hoofsere hoofste
definite hoofse hoofsere hoofste
partitive hoofs hoofsers —

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