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.
- 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
- CALIBAN:
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His spirits […] 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—
[…]
- […]
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 60:
- It was firm enough to walk on, but Bradly took off his boots to preserve the leather from sea-water, and for the pleasure of barefoot walking on cool sand.
- (colloquial, of a vehicle on an icy road) Not using snow chains.
- (CB radio slang) Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.
SynonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
wearing nothing on the feet
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AdverbEdit
barefoot (not comparable)
- Wearing nothing on the feet.
- 2007, Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin, Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do:
- Ignoring the familiar discomfort, he padded barefoot across the thick white carpet toward the heavy curtains that lined the richly appointed bedroom’s wide transparisteel window.
- She likes to go barefoot in the summertime.
- (CB radio slang) Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.
TranslationsEdit
wearing nothing on the feet
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