Cloven Foot

Definition: Cloven Foot

1. The mark of Satan.

2. A hoof divided into two parts at its distal extremity (as of ruminants or swine).

Specialty Definition: Cloven Foot

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To dream of a cloven foot, portends some unusual ill luck is threatening you, and you will do well to avoid the friendship of strange persons. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Cloven foot To show the cloven foot, i.e. to show a knavish intention, a base motive. The allusion is to Satan, represented with the legs and feet of a goat; and, however he might disguise himself, he could never conceal his cloven feet. (See Bag O'Nails, Goat .) "Real grief little influenced its composition and the cloven foot peeps out in some letters written by him at the period."- St. James's Magazine. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	CLOVEN FOOT. To spy the cloven foot in any business; to discover some roguery or something bad in it: a saying that alludes to a piece of vulgar superstition, which is, that, let the Devil transform himself into what shape he will, he cannot hide his clov. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Synonyms within Context: Cloven Foot

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discovery	Open the eyes to; see through, see daylight, see in its true colors, see the cloven foot; detect; catch, catch tripping.
Malevolence	Verb: be malevolent; Adjective: bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a grudge, bear malice; betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot.
	Hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness; Adjective: brutality, savagery; ferity, ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection.
Satan	Diabolism; devilism, devilship; diabolology; satanism, devil worship; manicheism; the cloven foot.
Vice	Infirmity; weakness; Adjective: weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: Cloven Foot

Domain	Title
Books	The Cloven Foot (Notable American Authors) (reference) (more book examples)
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Expressions: Cloven Foot

Expressions using "cloven foot": betray the cloven foot ♦ show the cloven foot ♦ the cloven foot ♦ To show the cloven foot. Additional references.
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Modern Translation: Cloven Foot

Language		Translations for "cloven foot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		双蹄 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そうてい (assumption, binding, format, hypothesis, row, sending a book as a present, supposition, young man who has reached adulthood, youth). (various references)

Pig Latin		ovenclay ootfay

Turkish		şeytan (adversary, arch fiend, artful, cloven hoof, crafty, cunning, daemon, demon, devil, fiend, old harry, old nick, prince of darkness, sly, the arch-enemy, the devil, the evil one, the old dragon, the old enemy, the tempter, wily), çatal tırnak (cloven hoof). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Cloven Foot

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-f-l-n-o-o-o-t-v"
	-4 letters: cloven, colone, footle, ocelot.
	-5 letters: cento, cleft, clone, cloot, clove, colon, conte, conto, coven, covet, felon, lento, novel, often, ovolo, volte.
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