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barefoot

adj
/ˈbɛɹfʊt/US/ˈbɛəfʊt/UK/ˈbɑːɹfʊt/

Etymology

From Middle English barefote, barfot, from Old English bærfōt (“barefoot”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀafōt, 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”).

  1. inherited from *bazafōts✻ — “barefoot”
  2. inherited from *baʀafōt✻
  3. inherited from bærfōt
  4. inherited from barefote

Definitions

  1. Wearing nothing on the feet.

    • After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot.
    • [L]ike Hedg-hogs vvhich / Lye tumbling in my bare-foote vvay, and mount / Their pricks at my foot-fall: ſometime am I / All vvound vvith Adders, vvho vvith clouen tongues / Doe hiſſe me into madneſſe: […]
    • 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.

  2. Of a vehicle on an icy road

    Of a vehicle on an icy road: not using snow chains.

  3. Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A surname transferred from the nickname.

    2. An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, Kentucky, United States.

The neighborhood

Derived

barefoot all over, barefoot and pregnant, Barefoot Bay, barefoot doctor, barefooter, barefooting, barefoot shoe, pregnant and barefoot, run barefoot through, the shoemaker's children go barefoot

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA