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footworn

[ foo t-wawrn, -wohrn ]
/ ˈfʊtˌwɔrn, -ˌwoʊrn /

adjective

worn down by the feet: a footworn pavement.
footsore.

Words nearby footworn

footwall, footway, footwear, footwell, footwork, footworn, footy, foozle, fop, foppery, foppish

Origin of footworn

First recorded in 1785–95; foot + worn
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for footworn

  • Night after night they played their fiddles and danced till dawn on their footworn puncheon floors.

    The Conquest|Eva Emery Dye

  • It is a charming place, rather shabby and footworn, as befits a strictly popular resort, but with a character all its own.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877|Various

  • The corkscrew stairway, broken and footworn though it is, seems infinitely less perilous.

    Cheerful--By Request|Edna Ferber

British Dictionary definitions for footworn

footworn
/ (ˈfʊtˌwɔːn) /

adjective

Also: footweary footsore
worn away by the feeta footworn staircase
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012