Barefoot
adj, adv, name, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Wearing nothing on the feet. not-comparable
"After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot."
- 2 Of a vehicle on an icy road: not using snow chains. informal, not-comparable
- 3 Transmitting without the use of an amplifier. not-comparable, slang
- 1 without shoes wordnet
- 1 Wearing nothing on the feet. not-comparable
"She likes to go barefoot in the summertime."
- 2 Transmitting without the use of an amplifier. not-comparable
- 1 without shoes on wordnet
- 1 A surname transferred from the nickname. countable, uncountable
- 2 An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, Kentucky, United States. countable, uncountable
Antonyms
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More examples"Shoemakers' children go barefoot."
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”).
A nickname, from barefoot.
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