Sure-footed

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• Sure

  ·superl Betrothed; engaged to marry. II. Sure ·superl Free from danger; safe; secure. III. Sure ·a...

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• sure

  , or shore. See shore. ...

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• Footed

  ·adj Having a foothold; established. II. Footed ·adj Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot. II...

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• Pot-sure

  ·adj Made confident by drink. ...

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• cock-sure

  Certain: a metaphor borrowed front the cock of a firelock, as being much more certain to fire than t...

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• Cleft-footed

  ·adj Having a cloven foot. ...

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• Cloven-footed

  ·adj ·Alt. of Cloven-hoofed. ...

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• Fin-footed

  ·adj Having palmate feet. II. Fin-footed ·adj Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe. ...

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• Flat-footed

  ·adj Firm-footed; determined. II. Flat-footed ·adj Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of th...

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• Leaf-footed

  ·adj Having leaflike expansions on the legs; — said of certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug (Le...

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• Light-footed

  ·adj Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. ...

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• Lobe-footed

  ·adj <<Lobiped>>. ...

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• Mouth-footed

  ·adj Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws. ...

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• Oar-footed

  ·adj Having feet adapted for swimming. ...

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• Polt-footed

  ·adj Having a distorted foot, or a clubfoot or clubfeet. ...

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• Rough-footed

  ·adj Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove. ...

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• Tickle-footed

  ·adj Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. ...

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• Tiger-footed

  ·adj Hastening to devour; furious. ...

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• Turtle-footed

  ·adj Slow-footed. ...

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• Web-footed

  ·adj Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl. ...

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• Wing-footed

  ·adj Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying. II. Wing-footed ·adj Having wings attached ...

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• flat-footed

  Firm-footed, resolute; firmly, resolutely. A term belonging to the Western political slang with whic...

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• pig-footed bandicoot

  n. name given to Choeropus castanotis, Gray, an animal about the sizeof a rabbit, belonging to the ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sure as a gun

  Absolutely certain. A common colloquial expression.--Brockett. There's luck, says auld Lizzy, in fa...

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