bare-footen

adjective

Barefoot.

OriginMiddle English bare foten →
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Meanings

adjectivebare-footen (not comparable)

alternative bare footen

  1. archaicdialectalnonstandardnot comparablerareBarefoot.

    Seems like the good Lord wants me swimming, Tom thought. Put me twice in the sound in three days, last time bare-footen.

    2001, Richard Fuller, Escape from Savannah, page 221
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    […] “Our host, his fair spouse, and bare-footen maiden, seemed equally strangers to the wholesome duties of ablution; […]”

    1796, Sporting Magazine, volume 7, page 211

    She was ordered to go from her house 'bare footen' and 'with a sheet cast upon her smock' to the Official sitting in St Martin's Church (now Carfax Tower, but then the seat of ecclesiastical authority in Oxford before the creation of the diocese), thence to Oxford Castle (the seat of royal power), back to Carfax, and then to the Bocardo (the town gaol, and a site of civic authority).

    2014, Fernanda Pirie, Judith Scheele, Legalism: Community and Justice, page 128

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
barefooted

Origin

  1. Middle Englishbare foten
  2. Englishbare-footen

From Middle English bare foten, equivalent to barefoot + -en (past participle ending). Compare English barefooted.

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APA

bare-footen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bare-footen

MLA

“bare-footen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bare-footen. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bare-footen,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bare-footen.

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