shoeless
adjEtymology From Middle English sholes, scholes, equivalent to shoe + -less. Compare Dutch schoenloos (“shoeless”), German schuhlos (“shoeless”), Old Norse skólaus (“shoeless”).
1
Without shoes; not wearing shoes
- He ran shoeless from the burning house.
- The ground about was thick sown with caltrops, which very much incommoded the shoeless Moors.c. 1681, Lancelot Addison, The Moores baffled: being a discourse concerning Tanger:
- Synonyms
- barefoot, barefooted, unshod, unshoed
- Derived terms
- shoelessly, shoelessness