shoeless

From Middle English sholes, scholes, equivalent to shoe +‎ -less. Compare Dutch schoenloos (“shoeless”), German schuhlos (“shoeless”), Old Norse skólaus (“shoeless”).

shoeless (not comparable)

1. Without shoes; not wearing shoes

   He ran shoeless from the burning house.

   • c. 1681, Lancelot Addison, The Moores baffled: being a discourse concerning Tanger:

     The ground about was thick sown with caltrops, which very much incommoded the shoeless Moors.

• barefoot, barefooted, unshod, unshoed

• shoelessly
• shoelessness

• barefoot
• discalced

• essholes, hoseless