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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishbarefote,barfot, fromOld Englishbærfōt(“barefoot”), fromProto-Germanic*bazafōts(“barefoot”) equivalent tobare +‎foot. Cognate withScotsbarefit(“barefoot”),Old Frisianberfōt("barefoot"; modern Saterland Frisianboarfouts(“barefoot”,adverb)),Dutchbarrevoets(“barefoot”,adverb),Germanbarfuß(“barefoot”),Danishbarfodet(“barefoot”),Swedishbarfota(“barefoot”,adverb),Icelandicberfættur(“barefoot”),Yiddishבאָרוועס(borves,“barefoot”).

barefoot (1)

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Adjective

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barefoot (notcomparable)

  1. Wearingnothing on thefeet.
    After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids werebarefoot.
    • 1610–1611 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene ii],page 9, column 1:
      [L]ike Hedg-hogs vvhich / Lye tumbling in mybare-foote vvay, and mount / Their pricks at my foot-fall: ſometime am I / All vvound vvith Adders, vvho vvith clouen tongues / Doe hiſſe me into madneſſe:[…]
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay,Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.:Ure Smith, published1962,→OCLC, page60:
      It was firm enough to walk on, but Bradly took off his boots to preserve the leather from sea-water, and for the pleasure ofbarefoot walking on cool sand.
  2. (informal) Of a vehicle on an icy road: not usingsnow chains.
  3. (CB radio, slang)Transmitting without the use of anamplifier.

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wearing nothing on the feet

Adverb

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barefoot (notcomparable)

  1. Wearingnothing on thefeet.
    She likes to gobarefoot in the summertime.
    • 2007, Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin,Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do:
      Ignoring the familiar discomfort, he paddedbarefoot across the thick white carpet toward the heavy curtains that lined the richly appointed bedroom’s wide transparisteel window.
  2. (CB radio slang)Transmitting without the use of anamplifier.

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Translations

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wearing nothing on the feet

References

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  1. ^Jespersen, Otto (1909)A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings,London:George Allen & Unwin, published1961,§ 4.37,page125.

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