Footgear

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Sturdy footwear. uncountable

    "It was rumored to be the haunt of grubby drunks, rubby-dubs we called them; they were said to drink rubbing alcohol and sleep in telephone booths and vomit on your shoes in the streetcar. But now it’s art galleries and bookshops, boutiques filled with black clothing and weird footgear, the saw-toothed edge of trend."

  2. 2
    covering for a person's feet wordnet

Example

More examples

"It was rumored to be the haunt of grubby drunks, rubby-dubs we called them; they were said to drink rubbing alcohol and sleep in telephone booths and vomit on your shoes in the streetcar. But now it’s art galleries and bookshops, boutiques filled with black clothing and weird footgear, the saw-toothed edge of trend."

Etymology

From foot + gear.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.