footsore

English

foot +‎ sore

footsore (comparative more footsore, superlative most footsore)

Having sore feet, but perhaps also a certain sense of satisfaction, after walking or hiking too much.
- 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 31:
  One yoke of cattle became so foot sore that they were unserviceable, and we were obliged to drive them behind the wagon.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 219:
  A quarrelsome band of footsore sulky niggers trod on the heels of the donkey.

having sore feet from too much walking

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