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footloose
foot·loose F0237900 (fo͝ot′lo͞os′)adj. Having no attachments or ties; free to do as one pleases.footloose (ˈfʊtˌluːs) adj1. free to go or do as one wishes2. eager to travel; restless: to feel footloose. foot•loose (ˈfʊtˌlus)
adj. free to go or travel about. [1690–1700] Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | footloose - free to go or do as one pleases; "Americans have always been a footloose people always moving on"; "a footloose young man eager to see the big city"free - able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice" |
footlooseadjectiveWithout a spouse:fancy-free, lone, single, sole, spouseless, unattached, unmarried, unwed.Idiom: footloose and fancy-free.Translationsfootloose
be footloose and fancy-freeTo be free of responsibilities, including romantic commitments (a fact that is often highlighted when this phrase is used). I love being a single woman, so I intend to be footloose and fancy-free for a long time. Now that I have a family and a mortgage, I miss being footloose and fancy-free.See also: and, footloosefootloose and fancy-freeFree of responsibilities, including romantic commitments (a fact that is often highlighted when this phrase is used). I love being a single woman, so I intend to be footloose and fancy-free for a long time. Now that I have a family and a mortgage, I miss being footloose and fancy-free.See also: and, footloosefootloose and fancy-freeFig. without long-term responsibilities or commitments. All the rest of them have wives, but John is footloose and fancy-free. Mary never stays long in any job. She likes being footloose and fancy-free.See also: and, footloosefootloose and fancy-freeHaving no attachments, especially romantic ones, and free to do as one pleases. For example, When I was in my twenties, footloose and fancy-free, I would travel at the drop of a hat . Both of these words have long been used separately; their pairing dates only from the 1900s. See also: and, footloosefootloose and fancy-free OLD-FASHIONEDIf someone is footloose and fancy-free, they are not married or in a long-term relationship, or they have very few responsibilities. He was footloose and fancy-free. He could go to parties and pubs on his own, and come and go as he pleased. Note: This term refers to a sail that could move about freely because the ropes holding it at the foot or bottom were loose. See also: and, footloosefootloose and fancy-free without any commitments or responsibilities; free to act or travel as you please. Footloose was used literally in the late 17th century to mean ‘free to move the feet’. The sense ‘without commitments’ originated in late 19th-century US usage. Fancy in fancy-free is used in the sense of ‘love’ or ‘the object of someone's affections’.See also: and, footlooseˌfootloose and fancy-ˈfree free to go where you like or do what you want because you have no responsibilities: Here she was, at forty, footloose and fancy-free in New York.See also: and, footloosefootloose and fancy-freeUnattached, especially in the sense of romantic involvement. The word footloose, meaning free to go anywhere, originated in the late seventeenth century. Fancy-free, meaning not in love (fancy once meant “in love”), dates from the sixteenth century. It was used by Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2.2), where Oberon tells Puck, “But I might see young Cupid’s fiery shaft quench’d in the chaste beams of the watery moon, and the imperial votaress passed on, in maiden-meditation, fancy-free.”See also: and, footloosefootloose and fancy freeUnattached, especially romantically, and able to move and act without responsibilities. The “foot” is the bottom of a sail, and a sail that is footloose is free to move whichever way the wind blows. So is a person who is “footloose and fancy free,” at liberty to follow any and all whims. (Such a state sounds enviable, but keep in mind the fable about “The Grasshopper and the Ant.”)See also: and, fancy, footloose, freefootloose
Synonyms for footlooseadj without a spouseSynonyms- fancy-free
- lone
- single
- sole
- spouseless
- unattached
- unmarried
- unwed
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