Boot Definition
- In addition; besides:
The new cruise ship was not only the biggest in the world, but the fastest to boot.
- besides; in addition
Origin of Boot
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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”), Old French bot (“fat, short, blunt”), probably from Old Norse buttr (“short, blunt”), from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhud-, *bhAud-, *bheid- (“to strike, push, shock”). Compare Norwegian butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), Old English buttuc (“end”). More at buttock.
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From Middle English boote, bote, bot, from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance”), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“atonement, improvement”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰÀd- (“good”). Akin to Old Norse bót (“bettering, remedy”) (Danish bod), Gothic (bota), German Buße.
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Middle English boten to be of help from Old English bōtian from bōt help bhad- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From bootleg (“to make or sell illegally”), by shortening
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Middle English bote from Old French
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Shortening of bootstrap.
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