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Hotfoot vs Hobble - What's the difference?

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Hotfoot is a related term of hobble.


As nouns the difference between hotfoot and hobble

is that hotfoot is (us) the prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it while hobble is short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.

As an adverb hotfoot

is (british) hastily; without delay.

As a verb hobble is

to fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.

hotfoot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.

    • Adverb

    (head)
  • (British) hastily; without delay.

    • Derived terms

    * hotfoot it

    Anagrams

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    hobble

    English

    Noun

  • (en noun) (usually in plural )
  • Short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
  • An unsteady, off-balance step.

    • Synonyms

    * tether (rope)

    Verb

  • To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
    • (Charles Dickens)
  • To walk lame, or unevenly.
  • * Dryden
    • The friar was hobbling the same way too.
  • (figurative) To move roughly or irregularly.
  • * Jeffreys
    • The hobbling versification, the mean diction.
  • To perplex; to embarrass.

    • Derived terms

    * hobble skirt * hobbly * unhobble