Definitions for hooves

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hooves hooves

Spelling: [hoo vz, hoovz]

IPA: /hʊvz, huvz/

Hooves is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in hooves (ehoosv).

Definitions for hooves

noun

1. a plural of hoof.
2. the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
3. the entire foot of a horse, donkey, etc.
4. Older Use. a hoofed animal, especially one of a herd.
5. Informal. the human foot.

Idioms

1. on the hoof, (of livestock) not butchered; live:

verb (used with object)

1. Slang. to walk (often followed by it):

verb (used without object)

1. Slang. to dance, especially to tap-dance:

Origin of hooves

before 1000; Middle English (noun); Old English hōf; cognate with Old Frisian hōf, Dutch hoef, German Huf, Old Norse hōfr; compare Sanskrit śaphas

Examples for hooves

Kate scrunched her hooves and got real balky, not likin' it a bit.

But "hooves" is a better symbol for the context of the sentence.

The hooves are sawn off, followed by the head, from which the tongue is removed.

Then there came a low and muffled drumming, like the pounding of thousands of hooves.

He took it a step further by comparing women's high heels to the hooves of demons.

Jamie McFadden reminds us of the classic Louis C.K. rant about "rats with hooves," also known as deer.

Then she saw the book, knocked to one side by the unicorn's hooves.

At one stage he even sampled a local delicacy, cow foot soup, made from the hooves of cattle.

The thudding of hooves became a mutter and then a rumble and then a growl.

Pan crossed his legs and his hooves clashed, striking sparks.