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Underfoot

//ʌndɚˈfʊt// adj, adv, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Situated under one's foot or feet. not-comparable
  2. 2
    In the way; placed so as to obstruct or hinder. not-comparable

    "We'd go to the Downbeat Club, on Fifty-second Street, and I'd be so underfoot that Billie couldn't miss me."

  3. 3
    Downtrodden; abject. not-comparable
Adverb
  1. 1
    Under one's foot or feet. not-comparable

    "The workers were all big, burly, hard-hearted men, tromping through the marsh in their heavy boots without sparing so much as a single thought for the masses of tiny frogs they crushed underfoot."

  2. 2
    In the way; situated so as to obstruct or hinder. not-comparable

    "It would be easier to do a big project like that someday when we don't have a bunch of newcomers underfoot."

Adverb
  1. 1
    under the feet wordnet
  2. 2
    in the way and hindering progress wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A storage compartment that sits below the deck of a boat.

    "In the early stages of fishing, storage space for wet fish was extremely limited, as three pounds on either side, and most of the staging and underfoots, contained ice, leaving only two empty pounds for stowage."

Verb
  1. 1
    To provide a footing beneath; to shore up or underpin. transitive

    "A builder was employed to underfoot a tenement, but the work having been improperly executed, damage was caused to adjoining houses."

  2. 2
    To assign a column summary that is less than the sum of all the entries in that column.

    "Another device is to underfoot the accounts receivable column and the net cash column in the record of cash receipts and to underfoot the debit or overfoot the credit side of one or more accounts in the customer's ledger by equal amounts."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English underfoote, underfote, equivalent to under- + foot. Cognate with Middle Dutch ondervoet (“underfoot”). Compare also Middle Low German undervôt (“pedestal, base”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English underfoote, underfote, equivalent to under- + foot. Cognate with Middle Dutch ondervoet (“underfoot”). Compare also Middle Low German undervôt (“pedestal, base”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English underfoote, underfote, equivalent to under- + foot. Cognate with Middle Dutch ondervoet (“underfoot”). Compare also Middle Low German undervôt (“pedestal, base”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English underfoote, underfote, equivalent to under- + foot. Cognate with Middle Dutch ondervoet (“underfoot”). Compare also Middle Low German undervôt (“pedestal, base”).

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