barefoot

[ bair-foo t ]

/ ˈbɛərˌfʊt /

Also bare·foot·ed. with the feet bare: a barefoot boy; to walk barefoot.

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

Origin of barefoot

before 1000; Middle English barfot, Old English bærfōt. See bare¹, foot

He was a handsome youngster, lightly clad and barefooted; and, although not yet full grown, of a strong and active build.

Kate Bonnet |Frank R. Stockton
Pressing after the gipsies came a knot of barefooted relatives, holding lighted tapers in their hands.

My Country |Marie, Queen of Rumania
A few weeks passed, and again he saw her barefooted, still scrubbing the floor.

Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times |Charles Carleton Coffin
A barefooted New Jersey boy told him that "lampers" die as soon as they have built their nests and laid their eggs.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 |Various

If Helen had not given me some of her slippers, I would be barefooted this minute.

The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp |Nell Speed

barefoot

/ (ˈbɛəˌfʊt) /

with the feet uncovered