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bare-footed

bare-footed is the alternative form of barefooted.

Meaning of barefooted

Adjective

barefooted (comparative more barefooted, superlative most barefooted)

  1. Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
    • By following the sound I came upon a bare-footed old woman with a yellow dried-up countenance, who was bending down over the pigs' trough, busy filling it with food, for which the noisy little creatures were fighting, tearing, pushing, and yelling, with expectation and delight.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H. L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 278

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Questions about bare-footed

What is bare-footed the alternative form of?
Bare-footed is the alternative form of barefooted.

Words near bare-footed in the dictionary

  1. bare-eared squirrel monkeys
  2. bare-eye
  3. bare-eyed cockatoo
  4. bare-eyes
  5. bare-faced
  6. bare-footed
  7. bare-footen
  8. bare-handed
  9. bare-handedly
  10. bare-handedness
  11. bare-headed

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