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See also: Barefoot
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English barefote, barfot, from Old English bærfōt (“barefoot”), 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”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɹfʊt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɛəfʊt/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈbɑːɹfʊt/, /ˈbæɹfʊt/[1]
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: barefoot
Adjective
[edit]barefoot (not comparable)
- Wearing nothing on the feet.
- After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 9, column 1:
- [L]ike Hedg-hogs vvhich / Lye tumbling in my bare-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: […]
- (informal) Of a vehicle on an icy road: not using snow chains.
- (CB radio, slang) Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.
Synonyms
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Adverb
[edit]barefoot (not comparable)
- Wearing nothing on the feet.
- She likes to go barefoot in the summertime.
- 2007, Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do:
- Ignoring the familiar discomfort, he padded barefoot across the thick white carpet toward the heavy curtains that lined the richly appointed bedroom’s wide transparisteel window.
- (CB radio slang) Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.
Derived terms
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References
[edit]- ^ 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, published 1961, § 4.37, page 125.
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