booted

English

Etymology

From boot +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbuːtɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbutɪd/
• Rhymes: -uːtɪd
• Hyphenation: boot‧ed

Adjective

booted (not comparable)

1. 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,^[1]

     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:^[2]

     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 […]

Derived terms

• booted eagle
• booted warbler
• Chelsea-booted
• jack-booted, jack booted
• suited and booted
• suited-booted
• unbooted

Verb

booted

1. simple past and past participle of boot

References

• “booted”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.