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noun

informal (esp in Ireland and Scotland) a Roman Catholic

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Word Origin for left-footer

C20: from the Northern Irish saying that farm workers in Eire use the left foot to push a spade when digging

Words nearby left-footer

left-branching, left-eyed flounder, left face, left field, left fielder, left-footer, left-hand, left-hand buoy, left-handed, left-handed compliment, left-hander

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How to use left-footer in a sentence

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Morris searched for whatever strength was left in his malnourished body.
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What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
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She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.
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The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
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She had just left the wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville, with 225 passengers on board, of whom but 124 were saved.
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Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.
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