HOOF

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Traducere în limba română

hoof I. pl. hoofs sau hooves substantiv

copită; (glumeţ) picior (de om);

(fam.) to get the hoof a fi concediat, a fi dat afară (din slujbă), a primi un picior / plicul;

(sl.) to pad / to beat the hoof a merge (pe jos), a umbla;

(fig.) under the hoof călcat în picioare, strivit sub călcâi, oprimat, asuprit.

hoof II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a lovi cu copita.

2. (sl.) to hoof it a merge pe jos;

◊ to hoof out a concedia, a da afară (din slujbă).

hoof II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a merge pe jos, a o lua per pedes, a merge apostoleşte / per pedes / cu tramvaiul doi / unşpe.

2. (amer. fam.) a dansa, a ţopăi.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He turned, however, at the sound of their hoofs, and it was clear that his blindness was a cheat like all the rest of him, for he ran swiftly through a field and so into a wood, where none could follow him.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He put his hoof three or four times to them, as if he would signify, that I should reduce them to their former shape, which I presently did, pulling off both my gloves, and putting them into my pocket.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

After some further discourse, which I then conjectured might relate to me, the two friends took their leaves, with the same compliment of striking each other’s hoof; and the gray made me signs that I should walk before him; wherein I thought it prudent to comply, till I could find a better director.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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