boot – English noun declension

English noun forms of boot

Noun: boot
Singularboot
Pluralboots

Sample Sentences

  • Dr. Jayakar was not only one of them but was at places the prime mover in the historic decisions taken by a nation struggling to get free of the British boot. [1958, Filmindia:]
  • Never in its long history, and one rich with brutal inequities too, had Paris known the disgrace of seeing one section of its community prosper under the boot of an invader [1989, Gilles Perrault, Pierre Azema, Paris Under the Occupation:]
  • Chronic unrest in Ireland, long under the British boot, was about to culminate in a popular rising. [2013 October 8, Stanley Weintraub, Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life, Hachette UK, →ISBN:]
  • The boot, thumbscrews, the shackles, and a contraption called the "warm hose", were only a few of the inflictions being too terrible to mention. [1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 221:]
  • [T]he young man helped the young lady, half-swooning, inside, and Egbert, Murial Jane and Silvander Dan climbed on to the boot which was a handsome high-seat at the back. [1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 23:]
  • He heaved the bag and its contents over the lip of the boot and on to the flagstones. When it was out, no longer in that boot but on the ground, and the bag was still intact, he knew the worst was over. [1998, Ruth Rendell, A Sight For Sore Eyes, published 2010, page 260:]
  • The body is constructed of welded steel panels, with the bonnet, doors and boot lid in aluminium on steel frames. [2003, Keith Bluemel, Original Ferrari V-12 1965-1973: The Restorer's Guide, unnumbered page:]
  • Peers leant against the outside of the car a lit up her filter tip and watched as Bauer and Putin placed their compact suitcases in the boot of the BMW and slammed the boot lid down. [2008, MB Chattelle, Richmond, London: The Peter Hacket Chronicles, page 104:]
  • He was useless so he got the boot.
  • old boot
  • Did you even go to OCS, you complete and utter boot!? [2020 November 2, JoshScorcher, “Top Ten Hated Characters We're Supposed to Like”, in YouTube:]
  • We do not anticipate there will be US boots on the ground to help quell the violence.
  • My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even. [1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 22:]
  • They drew in their horses and dismounted. The others riding ahead were already out of sight in the darkness. Beyond them shone the lights of Bou Saada. Tarzan removed his rifle from its boot and loosened his revolver in its holster. [1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Fight in the Desert”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 107:]
  • Because of overcrowding, many a CB enthusiast (called an "apple") is strapping an illegal linear amplifier ("boots") on to his transceiver ("ears") […] [1977, New Scientist, volume 74, page 764:]

Etymology

From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut. See: Middle English Nouns 'boote'.

Verbs referencing "boot"

Norwegian Bokmål Nouns bot, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns bot, Swedish Nouns bot, French Nouns botte, Spanish Nouns bota, Finnish Nouns bootsi.