Definitions for hoof

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hoof hoof

Spelling: [hoo f, hoof]

IPA: /hʊf, huf/

Hoof is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in hoof (fhoo).

Definitions for hoof

noun

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

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 hoof

"Spoils the hoof to put the knife on the sole, Buck," said the smith.

His horns are thick, short, and black; and his hoof is also black.

He had got for himself a hoof and part of the shin-bone, to which quite a bit of meat was attached.

Dan'l pricked up one ear, then a hoof, and slowly got under way.

No one I have ever met or witnessed spoke better on the hoof.

By horseback and hoof, Twain takes us from the Mormon Theocracy of Utah to the wide-open craziness in the Sierra mining fields.

And the knock was produced by Mukhorty, who had twice struck the sledge with his hoof.

Some of ye fellows is pretty careless wit' hoof grease, I'm thinkin'.

The new moon is a golden shoe for the hoof of his heroes' steed.

What about the elevators—will I have to hoof it up nine flights to get home?