cloven-hoofed

cloven-hoofed
/kloh"veuhn hooft", -hoohft"/, adj.
1. having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
2. devilish; Satanic.
Also, cloven-footed /kloh"veuhn foot"id/.
[1640-50]

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