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ˈfoot-loose, a. orig. U.S.
[Cf. foot n. 35.]
1. Free to move the feet, untrammelled.
a1699J. Beaumont Psyche (1702) xiii. cxlviii, Sedition was his Drift, and He could ne'r Persue that game unless he footloose were.
2. Free to act as one pleases; not hampered by any ties.
1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West xxxi. 669 All my friends who were ‘footloose’ had the ‘Arizona fever’. 1904F. Lynde Grafters xxvii. 347 If the mine should happen to explode..it'll be a comfort to have a foot-loose friend or two on the outside to pick up the pieces of us. 1910W. M. Raine B. O'Connor 52 We went in together for all the kinds of spreeing that young fellows who are footloose are likely to do. 1924― Troubled Waters x. 104 Oh, she's nice enough, when she isn't a little divvle. The trouble is she isn't foot-loose. 1943Forshaw & Abercrombie County of London Plan §46 The London Docks..are not directly affected by the Plan: this is an industry that is not ‘foot⁓loose’. 1959T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman i. 25 You see, I'm a widower, like you, Dick. So I'm pretty footloose. 1961Guardian 6 Feb. 8/4 A migrant group is likely to include..some who are merely footloose, who will settle nowhere. 1971‘E. Candy’ Words for Murder Perhaps xi. 125 I'm travelling around, you see. Footloose and fancy free, you might call me. I've no special ties anywhere. |