footloose

«footloose» in Mova's school dictionary: free to go where you like and do what you want, with no… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (often «footloose and fancy-free»)

meaning for a pupil

1) Footloose means free to go where you like and do what you want, with no responsibilities to tie you down. tree →

2) (informal) Not settled in one place. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories and everyday talk, often in the phrase «footloose and fancy-free», about young people travelling or not having a family or job holding them. It tells the reader someone is free and carefree.

examples

• After finishing school, he was footloose and fancy-free. tree →
• The footloose traveller hopped from town to town. tree →
• She enjoyed her footloose summer before starting work. tree →
• Uncle Joe has always been footloose. tree →
• They spent a footloose week exploring the coast. tree →
• Without homework, I felt footloose for a day. tree →

note

Informal and a bit old-fashioned. Usually describes people, not things. Not about losing your foot!

In the corpora

• "Footloose and fancy-free" means single and free of ties.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «footloose» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.