different between barefoot vs barefootfeet

English

Etymology

From Middle English barefote, barfot, from Old English bærf?t (“barefoot”), from Proto-Germanic *bazaf?ts (“barefoot”) equivalent to bare +? foot. Cognate with Scots barefit (“barefoot”), Old Frisian berf?t ("barefoot"; modern Saterland Frisian boarfouts (“barefoot”, adverb)), Dutch barrevoets (“barefoot”, adverb), German barfuß (“barefoot”), Danish barfodet (“barefoot”), Swedish barfota (“barefoot”, adverb), Icelandic berfættur (“barefoot”), Yiddish ????????? (borves, “barefoot”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??f?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??f?t/
• Hyphenation: barefoot

Adjective

barefoot (not comparable)

1. Wearing nothing on the feet.
   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2

     CALIBAN:

     […]

     His spirits hear me,

     And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch

     Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire,

     Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark

     Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but

     For every trifle are they set upon me,

     Sometimes like apes that now and chatter at me,

     And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which

     Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount

     Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I

     All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues

     Do hiss me into madness—

     […]

2. (colloquial, of a vehicle on an icy road) Not using snow chains.
3. (CB radio slang) Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.

Synonyms

• barefooted, discalced, shoeless, unshod, unshoed

Translations

Adverb

barefoot (not comparable)

1. Wearing nothing on the feet.

   She likes to go barefoot in the summertime.

2. (CB radio slang) Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.

Translations

Derived terms

• barefooting
• the shoemaker's children go barefoot

Further reading

• barefoot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia