barefoot
See also: Barefoot
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English barefote, barfot, from Old English bærfōt (“barefoot”), from Proto-Germanic *bazafōts (“barefoot”) equivalent to bare + foot. Cognate with Scots barefit (“barefoot”), Old Frisian berfōt ("barefoot"; modern Saterland Frisian boarfouts (“barefoot”, adverb)), Dutch barrevoets (“barefoot”, adverb), German barfuß (“barefoot”), Danish barfodet (“barefoot”), Swedish barfota (“barefoot”, adverb), Icelandic berfættur (“barefoot”), Yiddish באָרוועס (borves, “barefoot”).
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɹfʊt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɛəfʊt/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: barefoot
AdjectiveEdit
barefoot (not comparable)
- Wearing nothing on the feet.
- After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot.
- 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2
- CALIBAN:
- [...]
- His spirits hear me,
- And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch
- Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire,
- Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark
- Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but
- For every trifle are they set upon me,
- Sometimes like apes that now and chatter at me,
- And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which
- Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount
- Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I
- All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues
- Do hiss me into madness—
- [...]
- (colloquial, of a vehicle on an icy road) not using snow chains.
SynonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
wearing nothing on the feet
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AdverbEdit
barefoot (not comparable)
TranslationsEdit
wearing nothing on the feet
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