booted
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbuːtɪd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbutɪd/
- Rhymes: -uːtɪd
- Hyphenation: boot‧ed
Adjective edit
booted (not comparable)
- Wearing a boot or boots.
- Synonym: bebooted
- a booted foot
- 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 142,[1]
- They that are booted are not always ready.
- 1892, Ambrose Bierce, “The Applicant,” in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), New York: Gordian Press, 1966:[2]
- He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity […]
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
booted
- simple past and past participle of boot
References edit
- “booted”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.