barefoot

[ bair-foot ]

adjective

1. Also barefooted. with the feet bare:

   a barefoot boy;

   to walk barefoot.

2. Carpentry. (of a post or stud) secured to a sill or the like without mortising.

barefoot

/ ˈbɛəˌfʊt /

adjective

1. with the feet uncovered

Word History and Origins

Origin of barefoot¹

before 1000; Middle English barfot, Old English bærfōt. See bare ¹, foot

Example Sentences

From there the scene cuts to a dark forest where Mono, a small, barefoot boy with a bag over his head, sits with his back toward a boxy television with a static-filled screen which quickly shuts off.

From Washington Post

The rescuers found the victims themselves over half a mile downslope from their camp, some of them barefoot and almost naked.

From Ars Technica

If your favorite soccer team scores a goal while you’re barefoot, you may take off your shoes and socks for future games — just in case.

From Science News For Students

Fortunately all photographic evidence has long been destroyed, but there was a time when I briefly belonged to the barefoot running cult.

From Outside Online

People danced barefoot on the soft sand and mingled with friends, she said.

From ProPublica

He stood barefoot, his neck covered with interlocking black tattooed swirls, the word HELL inked into his forehead.

From The Daily Beast

The decomposing corpses wore the black pants and belts that fighters wear, although some were barefoot.

From The Daily Beast

It was not easy to walk barefoot over rocky soil, many of the hard trodden patches searing in the direct light of the sun.

From The Daily Beast

A barefoot corpse in camouflaged khakis is being carried into the street, partially wrapped in rug, as I enter the house.

From The Daily Beast

Urban children kick a can on concrete and rural kids kick a rag wrapped around a rag wrapped around a rag, barefoot, on dirt.

From The Daily Beast

It may be said that among uncivilized and barefoot people the great toe is usually very mobile.

From Project Gutenberg

There was Billy Cook, from over across the cove, who was always barefoot, although a man of forty.

From Project Gutenberg

He ware none other clothing, and he went oft barefoot and seldom ware any girdle.

From Project Gutenberg

Usually they go barefoot in their villages, but when they are on a journey they wear a sort of brogue like the men.

From Project Gutenberg

He must fast many days, or travel barefoot through rugged ways, or sleep in the open air.

From Project Gutenberg