catsfoot

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of mountain cudweed (Antennaria dioica).

  2. 2.

    Synonym of cat's-paw: a foot of a cat; (figurative, obsolete) a person used unwittingly or through trickery by another.

    ...like the Monkey, that took the Cat's Foot to pull the Chesnut out of the Fire...

  3. 3.

    Synonym of ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea).

词源

From cat's + foot. For its obsolete figurative sense, see cat's-paw.

来源：wiktionary