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Antonyms for boots
Grammar : Noun, verb |
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Phonetic Transcription : buts |
Definition of boots
Origin :- footwear, early 14c., from Old French bote "boot" (12c.), with corresponding words in Provençal and Spanish, of unknown origin, perhaps from a Germanic source. Originally for riding boots only. An old Dorsetshire word for "half-boots" was skilty-boots [Halliwell, Wright].
- noun heavy, often tall, shoe
- verb kick; oust
- verb start operating system
- Ben had drawn off his boots, and was firing them one after the other at the door.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- There he took the boots—they were terribly stained, he saw—and drew them on.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- Evan, the last boy had his boots blacked, and a fresh paper collar on!
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- In an English hotel, would the chef sit down to talk with boots?
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- Ah, the truthful glass betrayed the weak point in her armor—the boots.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- I'll get a pair of ridin' breeches an' boots for you by tomorrow.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- Some of the boots were past wearing when found, and some were not found.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
- I rub it on boots, I keep my guns and ax from rustin' by smearin' it on.
- Extract from : « With Trapper Jim in the North Woods » by Lawrence J. Leslie
- Her face was square and sensible like her shoulders, and her boots.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- I am told that it is also advisable to have straw in your boots.'
- Extract from : « Echoes of the War » by J. M. Barrie
Synonyms for boots
- ax
- bootstrap
- bounce
- brogan
- can
- chase
- chuck
- cold boot
- cut
- discharge
- dismiss
- drive
- dropkick
- eighty-six
- eject
- evict
- expel
- extrude
- fire
- footwear
- galoshes
- heave
- kick out
- knock
- load
- mukluk
- oxford
- punt
- reboot
- reset
- restart
- sack
- shove
- snow shoes
- start
- start computer
- terminate
- throw out
- waders
- warm boot
- waters
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