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footworn

[ foot-wawrn, -wohrn ]

adjective

  1. worn worn down by the feet: foot:

    a footworn pavement.



footworn

/ ˈfʊtˌwɔːn /

adjective

  1. Alsofootweary footsore
  2. worn away by the feet

    a footworn staircase

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of footworn1

First recorded in 1785–95; foot + worn
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Example Sentences

It is a charming place, rather shabby and footworn, as befits a strictly popular resort, but with a character all its own.

The corkscrew stairway, broken and footworn though it is, seems infinitely less perilous.

Night after night they played their fiddles and danced till dawn on their footworn puncheon floors.

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