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English
Etymology
From hoof + -ish.
Adjective
hoofish (comparative more hoofish, superlative most hoofish)
- Resembling or characteristic of a hoof.
1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, page 56:This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet.
1862, Mrs. Newton Crosland, Mrs. Blake: A Story of Twenty Years, volume 2, page 245:This spreading warmth, so freely shed, / Is token that ye are not dead, / Nor tranced beneath the hard, brute heel / Whose hoofish tread yet leaves you leal / To all the thoughts that gather round […]