cloven hoof
Americannoun
noun
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the divided hoof of a pig, goat, cow, deer, or related animal, which consists of the two middle digits of the foot
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the mark or symbol of Satan
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In his short story “Ordeal by Golf,” the narrator declares, “In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2019
Another hog, Julie the Mulie, is another breed, a mulefoot hog, so named because its feet are one hoof, not the split, cloven hoof of most pigs.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2016
The Devil pawed at the sulphurous earth with a cloven hoof.
From Time Magazine Archive
At once a buyer with a cloven hoof appears, and transforms beefy Joe Boyd into lithe, 22-year-old Joe Hardy, the greatest ballplayer of all time.
From Time Magazine Archive
But one woman woke everybody up at dawn on Wednesday because she found the tracks of a biped with a cloven hoof.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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