barefoot

1. not comparableWearing nothing on the feet.

   After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot.

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   [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: […]

   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

   It was firm enough to walk on, but Bradly took off his boots to preserve the leather from sea-water, and for the pleasure of barefoot walking on cool sand.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 60

2. informalnot comparableOf a vehicle on an icy road: not using snow chains.
3. not comparableslangCB radioTransmitting without the use of an amplifier.

1. not comparableWearing nothing on the feet.

   She likes to go barefoot in the summertime.

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   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.

   2007, Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do

2. not comparableCB radio slangTransmitting without the use of an amplifier.

plural Barefoots · alternative Barfoot · alternative Burfoot

1. countableuncountableA surname transferred from the nickname.
2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Nicholas County, Kentucky, United States.