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barefoot

ba·re·foot

UK/ˈbɛəfʊt/ US/ˈbɛɹfʊt/ fairly common informal slang
adjective (1) adverb (1)

adjective

1.

without shoes

  • “the barefoot boy”
  • “shoeless Joe Jackson”
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adverb

1.

without shoes on

  • “he chased her barefoot across the meadow”
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Origin

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”).

Phrases

  • barefoot all over
  • barefoot and pregnant
  • Barefoot Bay
  • barefoot doctor
  • barefoot shoe
  • pregnant and barefoot
  • run barefoot through
  • the shoemaker's children go barefoot

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