shoeless

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shoeless

Where it comes from

From Middle English sholes, scholes, equivalent to shoe + -less. Compare Dutch schoenloos (“shoeless”), German schuhlos (“shoeless”), Old Norse skólaus (“shoeless”).

adjective

not comparable Without shoes; not wearing shoes He ran shoeless from the burning house.
Similar: barefoot, barefooted, unshod, unshoed

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adj without shoes

Español	descalzo
中文	沒有鞋子 /没有鞋子 méiyǒu xiézi
Ελληνικά	απαπούτσωτος apapoútsotos

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@misc{shoeless_2026,
  title = {shoeless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shoeless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}