Definitions

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  • adjective Not wearing boots.
  • adjective computing, rare Not having been booted.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ booted

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Examples

  • December 16, 2006 • 2: 55 pm the woman i call a blog goddess get electrocuted suited unbooted this house of a hardened heart cannot be looted

    the woman i call a blog goddess « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2006

  • Now he was a broken-down old man — whose mind had been, as it were, unbooted and put into moral slippers for the remainder of its term of existence upon earth.

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • Of Joisan herself - but those thoughts I battled, summoning always in answer to them the memory of her expression when she had seen my unbooted feet.

    The Crystal Gryphon Norton, Andre 1972

  • There were red mittenless hands and unbooted feet in low shoes that were not new.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • They were people who looked much like those she had seen on the train: women like herself, clutching boxes and babies, shivering in huddles of toe-hopping, teeth-chattering children; the girls especially suffered, dressed as they were, like her own girls, in shortish coats and flimsy rayon dresses, their unbooted feet in low shoes and socks.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • M. de Chevreuse, whom I found when the King was being unbooted, proposed that we should go and pay our compliments to M. de la Rochefoucauld.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • The face rose; a pair of shoulders, a portly body, and a pair of unbooted legs became visible.

    Clementina 1906

  • But these boulders, thrown in by the natives; and easily grasped by their unbooted feet, are simply a snare to us; we invariably slip off them into the water.

    Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887

  • Now he was a broken-down old man -- whose mind had been, as it were, unbooted and put into moral slippers for the remainder of its term of existence upon earth.

    Phineas Redux 1873

  • Now he was a broken-down old man, -- whose mind had been, as it were, unbooted and put into moral slippers for the remainder of its term of existence upon earth.

    Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1848

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