Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Blackfoot

(The ). One of the many Irish factions which disturbed the peace in the first half of the nineteenth century.

And the Blackfoot, who courted each foeman's approach,
Faith! `tis hot-foot [speedily ] he'd fly from the stout
Father Roach.

Lover.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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