barefooter
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who takes part in water skiing without wearing water skis.
Example Sentences
- "A barefooter can perform such tricks as one-foot barefoot, tumble turns, crossing wakes, and toehold barefoot. Wake crossing is achieved in much the same fashion as it is on two skis."
- "In 1950, a waterskiing competition in Florida included a barefoot waterskiing event. The barefooter who could barefoot water-ski for the longest time won this event. Barefooters began performing tricks such as tumbleturns and skiing backward in the early 1960s."
- "A Calgarian barefooter by the name of Jay Winkler doesn’t even let Canadian winters slow him down. He says he particularly loves bare-hoofing along a high mountain trail around Emerald Lake, B.C."
- "Julia Hill is a barefooter extraordinaire. She spent two years living in a California redwood in a crusade to protect the state’s last remaining oldgrowth redwood forest[…] She always climbed the tree, which she named Luna, barefoot, even in the dead of winter, saying that she “had to have the connection.”"
- "Within three weeks of beginning her paper route, Wise had become a 24/7 barefooter, and she no longer had pain in her knees. […] Wise became a barefooting activist after she was told by a manager at Market of Choice that she couldn’t be in the store without shoes."
Etymology
From barefoot + -er.