Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having cloven hooves, as deer or cattle do.
- adjective Satanic; devilish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having the
hoof divided into two parts, as theox
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the cloven feet of ruminants or swine
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Examples
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The highly infectious disease is often fatal for cloven-hoofed animals including cows, sheep, pigs and goats, causing blisters on the mouth and feet.
Buddhists pray for animals killed to halt disease outbreak 2011
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Another striking image: a late painting from 1902 called "Barbaric Tales," which depicts an old friend who had died as a cloven-hoofed specter, accompanied by a seated nude woman in a Buddha-like pose.
A Dark Rebel in a Tahitian Paradise Stan Sesser 2011
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Since late November, nearly 1.7 million cloven-hoofed animals have been culled.
South Korea Claiming Upper Hand in Farm Battle Against Foot-and-Mouth Disease 2011
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Foot-and-mouth disease, while highly infectious among cloven-hoofed animals, does not affect humans.
South Korea Claiming Upper Hand in Farm Battle Against Foot-and-Mouth Disease 2011
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The highly infectious disease is often fatal for cloven-hoofed animals including cows, sheep, pigs and goats, causing blisters on the mouth and feet.
Buddhists pray for animals killed to halt disease outbreak 2011
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… Perhaps, too, a cloven-hoofed, bristly haired mammal will become airborne and the rosette-like marking of a certain breed of ferocious feline will become altered.
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Of the cloven-hoofed animal, plain or with cheese, you may eat, but not in the living room.
Humor 2007
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Of the cloven-hoofed animal, plain or with cheese, you may eat, but not in the living room.
Humor 2007
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Perhaps I should pick up a course in Conversational Abyssal at a local community college on the chance I could catch the ear of these cloven-hoofed devils.
Art of the con II: A second round with my father’s postal oppressors « The Retort 2009
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But it was our own Evangelical, oxy-moronic (sic) Judeo-Christian (sic) cloven-hoofed Pat Robertson, who chats often with God who gave us the real lowdown on Israel's "moral" savagery.
Fading Into Mist... 2009
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