featherfoot · noun — an Aboriginal sorcerer. It carries an Arena rating of 1366, earned across 5 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, featherfoot ranks #134 of 17,177 for Most Whimsical Words, #2,293 of 17,171 for Scariest Words, #2,572 of 17,165 for Most Satisfying to Say, #2,968 of 17,166 for Most Vivid Words.
Why “featherfoot” is a great word
A ritual executioner or sorcerer in Aboriginal Australian culture, known for moving in utter silence, sometimes by binding feathers to the feet to avoid leaving tracks. From the English words feather and foot, describing the silent, untracked movement of the practitioner. Unlike a shaman, a general spiritual intermediary who may heal, or an assassin, a secular killer for hire, the featherfoot is a figure of sanctioned dread operating within a precise spiritual law. He is the ripple of grass where no wind blows, the cold spot that crosses the campfire’s glow, the single, downy plume found where no bird could have been—the embodiment of a justice so absolute it leaves no trace but the absence it creates.
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Etymology
From feather + foot.
noun
- An Aboriginal sorcerer.
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