shoe
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skōhaz Proto-West Germanic *skōh Old English sċōh Middle English scho English shoe From Middle English scho, sho, from Old English sċōh (“shoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōh, from Proto-Germanic *skōhaz (“shoe”), of unclear etymology; possibly a derivation from *skehaną (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *skek- (“to move quickly, jump”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English sabatine, sabatoun (“shoe”) from Medieval Latin sabatēnum, sabatum (“shoe, slipper”) (compare Old Occitan sabatō, Spanish zapato (“shoe”), French sabot (“wooden shoe, clog”), Italian ciabatta). The archaic plural shoon is from Middle English shon, from Old English scōn, scōum (“shoes”, dative plural) and scōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural); it is cognate with Scots shuin (“shoes”). See also Scots shae, West Frisian skoech, Low German Schoh, Dutch schoen, German Schuh, Bavarian Schuach, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sko, Tocharian B skāk (“balcony”).
Definitions
A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or…
A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.
- Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school.
A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection
A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
- Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake.
A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by…
A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
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Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
- Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes, or they will wear out unevenly.
The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
A pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
A fake passport.
To put shoes on one's own feet.
- Men and women clothed and shod for the ascent.
To put shoes on someone or something else's feet, especially to put horseshoes on a horse.
- "Old Jimmy Harris only shoed her last week, and I'd swear to his make among ten thousand."
To cover an object with a protective layer of material.
- The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.
- And they had been made by the same brand of tire as that which shod the car I sat in!
A surname.
The neighborhood
- synonymshoe
- synonymkick
- synonymcalceateto put shoes on
- neighborfootwear
- neighborsocks
- neighborartifact
- neighborapparel
- neighborclothing
- neighborbasketball shoe
- neighborbeach sandal
- neighborBeatle boot
- neighborboat shoe
- neighborboot
- neighborbrogue
- neighborbuskin
Derived
accessory shoe, approach shoe, as ever trod shoe-leather, as ever trod shoe leather, athletic shoe, ballet shoe, barefoot shoe, bar shoe, basketball shoe, black shoe, boat shoe, bowling shoe, brake shoe, brown shoe, bug shoe, casing shoe, character shoe, cleaning shoe, climbing shoe, clown shoe, cold shoe, collector shoe, comfortable as an old shoe, contact shoe, corrective shoe, court shoe, dead men's shoes, deck shoe, donkey shoe, dress shoe, elevator shoe, goloe-shoe, greenshoe, guide shoe, gumshoe, gym shoe, handshoe, high button shoe, Hoover shoe, horse shoe · +145 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at shoe. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at shoe. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at shoe
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA