cloven-footed

Having divided hooves

Cloven-footed means having a hoof split into two parts, like cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs.

The feature appears in biblical dietary laws distinguishing clean from unclean animals.

Because the devil is traditionally depicted with cloven hooves, the term carries sinister associations: a cloven-footed demon.

Also cloven-hoofed.

hoofed

ruminant

Multi-stomached grazing mammal

porcine · ungulate · cattle · sheep · goat · deer · antelope · pig · swine · buffalo

split

bifurcated

Divided into two branches

two-toed · bisected · branched · segmented · halved

mythical

satyr

Goat-legged forest deity

  • faunGoat-legged nature spirit
  • PanHorned god of wilds
  • KrampusFolklore figure punishing misbehavior

trickster · pagan · sylvan · Arcadian · horned · goat-legged · wild · lustful · mischievous · pastoral

demonic

devil

Evil supernatural entity

  • SatanJudeo-Christian arch-enemy of God
  • demonMalevolent supernatural being
  • BaphometGoat-headed occult symbol

Mephistopheles · Beelzebub · Lucifer · imp · incubus · succubus · hellspawn · diabolical · infernal · satanic

Categories
  • ___-footed words
Opposites
hoof structure

cloven-footedpawed

Touched with clumsy force

padded

symbolic/religious connotation

cloven-footedangelic

Divinely pure and good

pure · holy · divine · blessed · heavenly

Family

foot, cleft, cleave, footed, cloves, cloven, cloven-hoofed

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