unshoed

English

Etymology

un- +‎ shoed

Adjective

unshoed (not comparable)

1. Not wearing shoes.
   • 1814, James Fennell, An Apology for the Life of James Fennell, Moses Thomas, page 380:

     […] he taught the uncovered head to dare the winter's snow; the unshoed foot to brave the biting ice […]

   • 1998, Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife, Perennial, published 2001, →ISBN, page 83:

     Curled underneath the beading table with the unshoed feet of women, you hear things you'd never want to know.

   • 2010, Robert Joseph Foley, “Doppelgänger”, in These Little Poems of Death and After Life, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 71:

     Rowena, with one ungainly unshoed foot
     Shoves the pail against the plastered wall

Synonyms

• barefoot, barefooted, shoeless, unshod

Verb

unshoed

1. simple past and past participle of unshoe

Anagrams

• Housden, unhosed