"well-heeled" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally American English, from a literal use in cockfighting: a well-heeled cock was provided with sharp spurs and could inflict maximum damage. From this developed the American frontier slang sense of being well-equipped, and thence the modern sense of being well supplied with money.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more well-heeled",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most well-heeled",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "well-heeled (comparative more well-heeled, superlative most well-heeled)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post",
          "text": "The world changes, consumerism marches on, and things once considered luxuries for the well-heeled are now taken for granted by us all — homes with 2½ bathrooms, air travel, cars with power windows.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 25, Claire Armitstead, “Jeanette Winterson: ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "These public artworks only arrived a few weeks ago, Winterson explains, as part of a grand plan to pedestrianise the area, and make it more buzzy, just at the moment that the sort of well-heeled office workers who bought upmarket chocolates are abandoning it owing to the Covid pandemic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 February 22, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 977, page 71",
          "text": "Mum had worked there as a teenager and once recalled her duty of having to meet the charabancs that brought the well-heeled to the baths from Droitwich station before the war.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Rich, affluent, prosperous."
      ],
      "id": "en-well-heeled-en-adj-qGnCH5vc",
      "links": [
        [
          "Rich",
          "rich"
        ],
        [
          "affluent",
          "affluent"
        ],
        [
          "prosperous",
          "prosperous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Rich, affluent, prosperous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "paralija",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "паралия"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "rijk"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "welvarend"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "varakas"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "riche"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "nanti"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "betucht"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "jómódú"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "tehetős"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "pénzes"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sostojatelʹnyj",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "состоятельный"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "rico"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "próspero"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "pîiap-prɔ́ɔm",
          "sense": "rich; affluent",
          "word": "เพียบพร้อม"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "well-heeled"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally American English, from a literal use in cockfighting: a well-heeled cock was provided with sharp spurs and could inflict maximum damage. From this developed the American frontier slang sense of being well-equipped, and thence the modern sense of being well supplied with money.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more well-heeled",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most well-heeled",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "well-heeled (comparative more well-heeled, superlative most well-heeled)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English parasynthetic adjectives",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post",
          "text": "The world changes, consumerism marches on, and things once considered luxuries for the well-heeled are now taken for granted by us all — homes with 2½ bathrooms, air travel, cars with power windows.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 25, Claire Armitstead, “Jeanette Winterson: ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "These public artworks only arrived a few weeks ago, Winterson explains, as part of a grand plan to pedestrianise the area, and make it more buzzy, just at the moment that the sort of well-heeled office workers who bought upmarket chocolates are abandoning it owing to the Covid pandemic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 February 22, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 977, page 71",
          "text": "Mum had worked there as a teenager and once recalled her duty of having to meet the charabancs that brought the well-heeled to the baths from Droitwich station before the war.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Rich, affluent, prosperous."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Rich",
          "rich"
        ],
        [
          "affluent",
          "affluent"
        ],
        [
          "prosperous",
          "prosperous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Rich, affluent, prosperous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "paralija",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "паралия"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "rijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "welvarend"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "varakas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "riche"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "nanti"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "betucht"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "jómódú"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "tehetős"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "pénzes"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sostojatelʹnyj",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "состоятельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "rico"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "próspero"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "pîiap-prɔ́ɔm",
      "sense": "rich; affluent",
      "word": "เพียบพร้อม"
    }
  ],
  "word": "well-heeled"
}