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shoeless

shoe·less

uncommon

adjective

1.

without shoes

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

From Middle English sholes, scholes, equivalent to shoe + -less. Compare Dutch schoenloos (“shoeless”), German schuhlos (“shoeless”), Old Norse skólaus (“shoeless”).

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