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Definition of Barefoot

1. Adjective. Without shoes. "Shoeless Joe Jackson"

2. Adverb. Without shoes on. "He chased her barefoot across the meadow"

Definition of Barefoot

1. a. & adv. With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.

Definition of Barefoot

1. Adjective. Wearing nothing on the feet. ¹

2. Adjective. (colloquial of a vehicle on an icy road) not using snow chains. ¹

3. Adverb. Wearing nothing on the feet. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Barefoot

1. being without shoes [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barefoot

barebones barebow barebum barebums barechested bared barefaced barefaced lie barefaced lies barefacedly

barefacedness barefacednesses barefit barefoot (current term) barefoot and pregnant barefoot doctor barefooted barefooting barege bareges

baregine baregines barehand barehanded barehandedly barehanding barehands barehead

Literary usage of Barefoot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"LCJ But it was an usual passage for carts anil carriages ?—barefoot. ... barefoot. Yes, that 1 speak of. barefoot. It was driven by the water that came from ..."

2. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"THE barefoot BOY Blessings on thee, little man. barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! ... Thou hast more than he can buy barefoot, trudging at his side, ..."

3. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1811)
"barefoot. It came at common tides till it was raised. LC 3. ... barefoot. There was a mill in my time that went with the tide, and all the water that came ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"THE barefoot BOY BLESSINGS on thee, little man, barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! With thy turned-up pantaloons. And thy merry whistled tunes; ..."

5. The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900 by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1915)
"THE barefoot BOY BLESSINGS on thee, little man, barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes; ..."

6. A Treasury of American Verse by Walter Learned, H. C. Edwards, Thomas McIlvaine (1897)
"_ THE barefoot BOY. BLESSINGS on thee, little man. barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! With thy turned-up pantaloons. And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy ..."

7. A Book of Famous Verse by Agnes Repplier (1892)
"THE barefoot BOY And her sails were loosened and lifted, And blown away like clouds. And the masts, with all their rigging. Fell slowly, one by one, ..."

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