FOOTSORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does footsore mean? 

• FOOTSORE (adjective)
  The adjective FOOTSORE has 1 sense:

1. having sore or tired feet

  Familiarity information: FOOTSORE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOOTSORE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having sore or tired feet

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

 Context examples 

I see myself, as evening closes in, coming over the bridge at Rochester, footsore and tired, and eating bread that I had bought for supper.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Footsore and famished, he had killed a rabbit under their very noses and under their very windows, and then crawled away and slept by the spring at the foot of the blackberry bushes.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The night had already fallen, and the moon was shining between the rifts of ragged, drifting clouds, before Alleyne Edricson, footsore and weary from the unwonted exercise, found himself in front of the forest inn which stood upon the outskirts of Lyndhurst.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were all terribly footsore.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)