feather-heeled

English

Adjective

feather-heeled (comparative more feather-heeled, superlative most feather-heeled)

(colloquial, archaic) nimble; frolicsome.
Synonym: light-heeled
- 1840, Thomas Hood, Up the Rine:
  The wit of the Germans is not feather-heeled; their humor is somewhat sedate

References

“feather-heeled”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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