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English
Etymology
From foot + sore.
Adjective
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.
Translations
having sore feet from too much walking