barefooted

See also: bare-footed

English

Etymology

bare + footed.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɛː(ə).fʊt.ɪd/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɚ.fʊt.ɪd/

Adjective

barefooted (comparative more barefooted, superlative most barefooted)

  1. Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 278:
      By following the sound I came upon a bare-footed old woman with a yellow dried-up countenance, who was bending down over the pigs' trough, busy filling it with food, for which the noisy little creatures were fighting, tearing, pushing, and yelling, with expectation and delight.
    • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 9:
      There were no roads, only paths through the grass worn away by barefooted boys and women.

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Adverb

barefooted (comparative more barefooted, superlative most barefooted)

  1. Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.

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