footloose
pronunciation
How to pronounce footloose in British English:
UK [ˈfʊtlu:s]
How to pronounce footloose in American English:
US [ˈfʊtˌlus]
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- Adjective:
- free to go or do as one pleases
Word Origin
- footloose (adj.)
- 1690s, "free to move the feet, unshackled," from foot (n.) + loose. Figurative sense of "free to act as one pleases" is from 1873.
Example
- 1. Only then can be footloose so .
- 2. She 's still footloose and fancyfree .
- 3. Yet they tend to be individualistic and footloose : any bank 's capital will do .
- 4. Being a footloose bachelor is one thing but I don 't condone screwing around on your wife and mother of your kids .
- 5. Americans are famously footloose . Migration rates across state lines are more than twice those between canadian provinces .