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English
Etymology
From boot + -ed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
booted (not comparable)
- 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
- (US, referring to a vehicle) Having a wheel clamp, also known as a boot, on one or multiple tyres.
Derived terms
Verb
booted
- simple past and past participle of boot
References
- “booted”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.