booted

English

Etymology

From boot + -ed.

Pronunciation

Adjective

booted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a boot or boots.
    Synonym: bebooted
    a booted foot
    • 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 142,
      They that are booted are not always ready.
    • 1892, Ambrose Bierce, “The Applicant,” in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), New York: Gordian Press, 1966:
      He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity []

Derived terms

Verb

booted

  1. simple past and past participle of boot

References

  • booted”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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