barefootとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɹfʊt/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛəfʊt/
• ハイフネーション: barefoot

形容詞

barefoot (not comparable)

1. Wearing nothing on the feet.

   After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot.

   • 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.

同意語

• barefooted, discalced, shoeless, unshod, unshoed

副詞

barefoot (not comparable)

1. Wearing nothing on the feet.
   • 2007, Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin, Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do:

     Ignoring the familiar discomfort, he padded barefoot across the thick white carpet toward the heavy curtains that lined the richly appointed bedroom’s wide transparisteel window.

   She likes to go barefoot in the summertime.

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