boot

CEFRA2

/buːt/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A strong shoe covering the foot and lower leg.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A blow with the foot; a kick.

Examples

  • And, we get each other's company to boot.

  • The Stars must be kicking themselves for giving him the boot.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /but/
  • /bʉːt/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.

  2. A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football (historically in the form of boots, now shorter, but still called the same).

  3. A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.

More examples

In context

  • He was useless so he got the boot.

  • We do not anticipate there will be US boots on the ground to help quell the violence.

  • I booted the ball toward my teammate.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut.