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Ever think upon the soles as being the arch angels of inspiration? There's a lot of heavy weighted matter that rests upon their little pit-a-pats.
It might be fun to take a look at the words that arise from our most direct connection with terra firma as we attempt to ascend from them into the infinite.
I'll proffer some obvious, and not-so-obvious ones, and see whether any of you may enjoy following me, nelipot barefoot or not, down this rarely trodden word path:
podium
podiatrist
podiatry Added edit: chiropody; chiropodist
pad (as a verb, it is immediately kinetic and onomatopeoic)
pelmatogram
hamble (why would anyone want to do this to a dog?)
pigeon-toed
slew-foot (not sure of spelling; too lazy to liu)
flat-footed
en pointe
............to get us started....or nowhere
Eager as always to read what you might shuffle up,
WordWalk
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So, WW, if we join your exclusive club, will we be members of Club Foot?
Pseudopodia - does that count?
Pedal
Orthopaedic
Pedestrian
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Do phrases count? Don't walk on your toes or Walks on his/her toes. just don't ask Max if elephants have toenails, PUHLEASE! 
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Whitman, sure phrases count as long as we don't tiptoe around the subject.
And we should have some degree of decorum in not pointing out any heels here.
My favorite expression for being gay is "light in the heels"--hope that doesn't offend anyone. I just think the phrase is cute.
Then there are:
down in the heels
at one's heels
kick up one's heels
There's also a verb for fighting with one's feet that I've forgotten, but will look for it today unless someone else remembers it first.
Did I spell slew-foot correctly?
Best regards,
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Geoff:
pseudopod/pseudopodium = a stretch, but good to include among these footnotes as a prime examaple of a foot-not.
Does pronate mean to the stretch the foot? Need to check that today...Nope, I just checked it and pronate means to turn the arm or hand downwards.
Savate was the word I was thinking of for boxing, not only with the hands, but also with the feet.
Also: having itchy feet = wanderlust?
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I'll take us right into the gutter with Foot fetish
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as you may or may not know, the grey matter of you brain is folded.. think of a large sheet of newpaper fold again and again to fit into a smaller space. Since information tends to be mapped to a specific part of the brain, these fold can cause area of the body -- with no relationship to each other to be very close..
the face --especailly the cheek of the face-- lies next to the fingers.. and in people who have lost fingers, stroking their face "reads" like touching their fingers.. the finger area of the brain, since it no longer was recieving any input--tends to merge with the area next to it.. in this case the Face.
an other common cross over of "sensation" is the feet and the genitals. these mapped areas are very close, and for unknown reasons, there is often a cross over.. maybe because its common to play with babies feet, (this little piggy, and other games) maybe because both have some many nerve endings.. but for what ever reason, it is very common to have a cross over of sensation between the areas.. usually it is mild.. and we "play footsie" or enjoy a foot massage, or just find feet, or shoes to be attractive or if a bit more intense, enjoy having our toes kissed or sucked on.. in extreme cases, the foot becomes the center for stimulation.. and one has a foot fetish... for the same reason, there is the common myth that foot size is related to the size of other parts of the anatomy...
Well that should keep us on our toes for today...
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more pedestrian words: expedite, fetter, centipede, trivet, antipodes(!), and (of course) sesquipedalian and parallelepiped.
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Knock-kneed,goose-stepping,tip-toeing, jackboot clomping;,stomping,heel and toeing,pirouetting,flatfoot flooging,roller blading,skating,gumshoeing,tap-dancing,twinkle toeing
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In looking up "pelmatogram"=footprint, I encountered alleged synonym "anichnogram" could find no confirmation
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re:having itchy feet = wanderlust?
or being foot loose (and fancy-free)
working (or walking) heel to toe..
have we had High stepping?
i am sure i saw Down trodden.. not from the same root.. but related.
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