beshoe

B3E1S1H4O1E1

verb

To put shoes on; fit or furnish with shoes.

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Meanings

verbbeshoe (third-person singular simple present beshoes, present participle beshoeing, simple past and past participle beshoed or beshod)

present singular third person beshoes · participle present beshoeing · participle past beshoed · past beshoed · participle past beshod · past beshod

  1. transitiveTo put shoes on; fit or furnish with shoes.

    But now the sight of Henscombe wheeling his beribboned, bebottled, beshoed barrow through the main thoroughfare of the metropolis awoke New York to a sense of the ridiculous reality.

    1908, The Scrap Book, page 532

Origin

From be- (“on, onto, upon”) + shoe.

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APA

beshoe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beshoe

MLA

“beshoe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beshoe. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beshoe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beshoe.

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