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shoed

shoed

1 5.6
A person, animal, or thing that wears coverings on the feet, for example horses with metal pieces on their hooves
  • adjective
  • /ʃuːd/
translation icon : calzado
  • A friend of mine once characterized these as the "slick, good looking, smooth talking, shiny shoed, gum-smacking sales reps" who sold totally on personality, not on product knowledge.
  • shoed foot

Examples

  • The farm animals, shoed for safety, trotted happily in the pasture.

  • They deserve a party worth worthy of the boat shoed broletariat who did their country proud.

  • Surprisingly, the barefooted runners were found to expend more energy overall than their shoed counterparts.

    Blog text (8)

  • Shoed, flashing, noisy navy-blue.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Does he see the dark smudges he's left on the margins of The Life of Christ—a whole trail of them, like someone very tiny and dirty-shoed has just traipsed across the pages?

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The horse was well-trained and shoed properly for the race.

  • After the workshop, all participants were shoed in protective footwear.

Synonyms

shod
vsshoed
1 7.2

Wearing shoes or other footwear

is mainly used for animals especially horses fitted with metal shoes
shodden
vsshoed
  • Archaic
9.9

Wearing shoes or boots rather than being barefoot

is mainly applied to animals especially horses with fitted metal shoes
calced
vsshoed
  • Jargon
9.9

Wearing shoes in some religious groups instead of going barefoot

is the general term for wearing shoes not limited to religious membership

Antonyms

barefoot
72 1.1

Not wearing shoes or socks

unshod
  • Archaic
1 8.6

A person or animal that is not wearing shoes, like a horse without horseshoes

How Shod

shoed
1 5.6
barefoot
72 1.1

Surface Forms

shoed positive

Morphology

shoed = shoe (transparent) = shoe + ed

The adjective is the regular past-participle/adjectival use of the verb 'shoe' formed with the productive suffix '-ed', so meaning is directly derived from the base verb.

Etymology

The word shoed comes from the old English word scōh meaning 'shoe', the same root as the modern shoe. So shoed simply means 'wearing shoes' or, for horses, 'fitted with horseshoes'.