underfoot

What it means

1. not comparableSituated under one's foot or feet.
2. not comparableIn the way; placed so as to obstruct or hinder.

   We'd go to the Downbeat Club, on Fifty-second Street, and I'd be so underfoot that Billie couldn't miss me.

   2006, Whitney Balliett, American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Song, page 199

   1 more example

   You ask a lot of questions, Morty. Not very charismatic. It makes you kind of an [belch] under [belch] underfoot figure.

   2013, Rick and Morty: Pilot

3. not comparableDowntrodden; abject.

In a sentence

We'd go to the Downbeat Club, on Fifty-second Street, and I'd be so underfoot that Billie couldn't miss me.

2006, Whitney Balliett, American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Song, page 199

Where it comes from

1. Middle Englishunderfoote
2. Englishunderfoot

From Middle English underfoote, underfote, equivalent to under- + foot. Cognate with Middle Dutch ondervoet (“underfoot”). Compare also Middle Low German undervôt (“pedestal, base”).