hoofs
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- hooves (noun)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hoofs
- 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
[edit]hoofs
- third-person singular simple present indicative of hoof
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (obsolete) hoofsch
Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch hovesch, whence also heus. Compare German hübsch. By surface analysis, hof (“court”) + -s.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]hoofs (comparative hoofser, superlative meest hoofs or hoofst)
Declension
[edit]| 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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- Rhymes:English/uːfs
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