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barefoot

[ bair-foot ]

adjective

  1. Also barefooted. with the feet bare:

    a barefoot boy;

    to walk barefoot.

  2. Carpentry. (of a post or stud) secured to a sill or the like without mortising.


barefoot

/ ˈɛəˌʊ /

adjective

  1. with the feet uncovered
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of barefoot1

before 1000; Middle English barfot, Old English æō. See bare 1, foot
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She walked barefoot for four days before reaching the town of Tawila.

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Danger hangs in the air like the clouds over the fields where Sammie works barefoot, mud squelched between his toes.

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Sabhib Agrawal is trying to get those buyers interested in barefoot footwear - shoes which, their makers say, are healthy for the foot as they encourage natural, or barefoot, movement.

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For over two years, he's walked barefoot most mornings on the grass of the pitches of the PSG training ground.

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Ms Millington's challenges have so far also included barefoot running, blacksmithing, beekeeping and busking on the streets of York in a turkey outfit playing Christmas songs on a kazoo.

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