Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unshoed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-shoed
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not wearing shoes.

verb

simple past and past participle of unshoe

Example Sentences

"[…] he taught the uncovered head to dare the winter's snow; the unshoed foot to brave the biting ice […]"
"Curled underneath the beading table with the unshoed feet of women, you hear things you'd never want to know."
"Rowena, with one ungainly unshoed foot Shoves the pail against the plastered wall"

Etymology

From un- + shoed.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Frequently Paired Words

reshoed reshod

Synonyms

unshod shoeless barefoot barefooted discalceate discalced

Antonyms

shod

Questions

What does unshoed mean?: Not wearing shoes.
Where does unshoed come from?: From un- + shoed.

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