slew-foot U.S. slang.
Also slough-, slue-foot, etc.
[f. slew v.]
A person who walks with his feet turned out; a clumsy person. Also transf. Hence slew-foot v.; slew-footed ppl. a.
| 1896 Bogert & O'Brien Slew Foot Sal (song) 3 I'll tell you of a lady, her name is Slew Foot Sal,..She's heavy and she weighs five-thirty-three. 1922 F. Scott Fitzgerald Beautiful & Damned i. iii. 122 A man in a striped blue suit, walking slue-footed in white-spatted feet. 1945 L. Saxon et al. Gumbo Ya-Ya xxiii. 496 She is hoping that her galloping, slue-foot, light-brown, lazy husband..will soon find a job. 1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for Bier xx. 130 Haggis [sc. an Airedale] shrugged and slough-footed away. 1961 J. B. Priestley Saturn over Water iv. 53 Leaving your work to go slewfooting in South America. |