Noun: bigfoot
| Singular | bigfoot |
| Plural | bigfeet |
Sample Sentences
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I mean, for the love of the Force, he's a bigfoot with a gun; how come he's not the baddest badass in the Empire? Instead we get a walking carpet who sucks at board games and has a fetish for restraints. [2011 November, Helena Nash, "No. 179—Wussy Wookie", The Drink Tank, No. 300, p. 180]
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And he's living a pundit’s dream by being frequently cited—not just by fellow bloggers, but by media bigfeet. [2002 May 19, Steven Levy, “Will The Blogs Kill Old Media?”, in Newsweek, volume 139:]
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Along with other media bigfeet, I chatted up Rummy and C.I.A. chief George Tenet, both of whom were in on the secret of the capture of Saddam a few hours before. [2003 December 15, William Safire, “From the ‘Spider Hole’”, in The New York Times, section A, page 27:]
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His combination of brains and bravery–even in the face of his grave miscalculation regarding Dean–when viewed against the smug, shallow self-satisfaction of the media bigfeet who mock him, redounds enormously to Gore’s benefit. [2004 February 12, Eric Alterman, “Al, We Hardly Know Ye”, in The Nation, volume 278, published 1 March 2004, page 12:]
Nouns inflected like bigfoot
puppyfoot,
puppy foot,
back foot,
splay foot,
splay-foot,
square foot,
metric foot,
bigfoot,
claw-foot,
stockingfoot,
Japanese foot,
international foot,
Hong Kong foot,
crowsfoot,
cubic foot,
slew-foot,
hindfoot,
US survey foot,
splayfoot,
mast foot, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology