# shoe
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English scho, sho, from Old English sċōh (“shoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōh, from Proto-Germanic *skōhaz (“shoe”), of unclear etymology; possibly a derivation from *skehaną (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *skek- (“to move quickly, jump”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English sabatine, sabatoun (“shoe”) from Medieval Latin sabatēnum, sabatum (“shoe, slipper”) (compare Old Occitan sabatō, Spanish zapato (“shoe”), French sabot (“wooden shoe, clog”), Italian ciabatta). The archaic plural shoon is from Middle English shon, from Old English scōn, scōum (“shoes”, dative plural) and scōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural); it is cognate with Scots shuin (“shoes”). See also Scots shae, West Frisian skoech, Low German Schoh, Dutch schoen, German Schuh, Bavarian Schuach, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish sko, Tocharian B skāk (“balcony”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sho͞o, IPA: /ʃuː/
* (General American) IPA: /ʃu/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -uː
* Homophones: chou, shoo, shew, SHU

### Noun

shoe (plural shoes or (archaic, dialectal) shoon or (obsolete) shoen)
* (footwear) A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.
    Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school.
* A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
    Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake.
* (card games) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
* Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
    Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes, or they will wear out unevenly.
** A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
** A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
** The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
** (architecture) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
** A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
** An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
** An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
** An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
** (engineering) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; called also slipper and gib.
** Part of a current collector on electric trains which provides contact either with a live rail or an overhead wire (fitted to a pantograph in the latter case).
** (historical) An ingot of gold or silver shaped somewhat like a traditional Chinese shoe, formerly used in trade in the Far East.
    Synonyms: (uncountable) boat money, (uncountable) shoe money
*** 1806, Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel, The Asiatic Annual Register, page 56:The finest gold among them is 100 touch, called Sycee, i. e. pure gold without alloy: so that if a shoe of gold touch 93, then it hath 93 parts of fine gold and 7 parts alloy.
* The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
* (by extension, slang) A pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
* (slang) A fake passport.

#### Hyponyms

* See Thesaurus:shoe

#### Coordinate terms

* calceiform (shoe-shaped), calceolate (slipper-shaped)

#### Derived terms

* accessory shoe
* approach shoe
* as ever trod shoe-leather
* as ever trod shoe leather
* athletic shoe
* ballet shoe
* barefoot shoe
* bar shoe
* basketball shoe
* black shoe
* boat shoe
* brake shoe
* brown shoe
* bug shoe
* casing shoe
* character shoe
* cleaning shoe
* climbing shoe
* clown shoe
* cold shoe
* collector shoe
* comfortable as an old shoe
* contact shoe
* corrective shoe
* court shoe
* dead men's shoes
* deck shoe
* donkey shoe
* dress shoe
* elevator shoe
* goloe-shoe
* greenshoe
* guide shoe
* gumshoe
* gym shoe
* handshoe
* high button shoe
* horse shoe
* horse-shoe vetch
* hot shoe
* houseshoe
* if the shoe fits
* jelly shoe
* jet shoe
* lotus shoe
* mis-shoe
* mule shoe
* Muleshoe
* nonshoe
* old-shoe
* old shoe
* orthopedic shoe
* overshoe
* Oxford shoe
* oxshoe
* pebble in one's shoe
* pile shoe
* platform shoe
* pointe shoe
* pony shoe
* put an egg in one's shoe and beat it
* put oneself in someone's shoes
* put the same shoe on every foot
* put the shoe on the other foot
* reshoe
* roller shoe
* running shoe
* saddle shoe
* safety shoe
* sand shoe
* sandshoe
* screw shoe
* shoebag
* shoebeam
* shoe beam
* shoebill
* shoebite
* shoeblack
* shoe block
* shoe bolt
* shoe bomber
* shoe box
* shoebox
* shoebrush, shoe brush
* shoecare
* shoecover
* shoecraft
* shoe cream
* shoefie
* shoefiti
* shoe flower
* shoeful
* shoegasm
* shoegaze
* shoegazer
* shoegazing
* shoegear
* shoe hammer
* shoehorn
* shoe-horn
* shoeicide bomber
* shoe-in
* shoe insert
* shoe-lace
* shoelace
* shoelacing
* shoe leather
* shoe-leather
* shoeless
* shoe lift
* shoelike
* Shoemaker
* shoemaker
* shoemaking
* shoemender
* shoepeg
* shoeplay
* shoe polish
* shoe print
* shoeprint
* shoer
* shoescraper
* shoeshine
* shoeshiner
* shoe shop
* shoesies
* shoe size
* shoesmith
* shoesole
* shoe spoon
* shoe stick
* shoe store
* shoestore
* shoestring
* shoe-tie
* shoetop
* shoe tossing
* shoetree
* shoe tree
* shoe up
* shoe verb
* shoewear
* shoe wedge
* shoey
* shootie
* shooties
* shower shoe
* slipshoe
* Snow Shoe
* snowshoe
* Snowshoe
* soft-shoe
* soft shoe
* stand in someone's shoes
* straw shoe
* stripper shoe
* suede-shoe operator
* suede-shoe salesman
* super shoe
* tennis shoe
* the shoe is on the other foot
* toe shoe
* track shoe
* trackshoe
* turnshoe
* undershoe
* veldt shoe
* wait for the other shoe to drop
* what foot the shoe is on
* where the shoe pinches
* which foot the shoe is on
* white-shoe
* white-shoe firm
* whose foot the shoe is on
* workshoe
* you cannot put the same shoe on every foot

#### Translations

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#### See also

* footwear
* socks

### Verb

shoe (third-person singular simple present shoes, present participle shoeing, simple past shod or shoed, past participle (obsolete) shodden or shod or shoed)
* (intransitive) To put shoes on one's own feet.
    Men and women clothed and shod for the ascent.
** 1995, Michel Potay, The Gospel Delivered in Arès, 26:6:
* (transitive) To put shoes on someone or something else's feet, especially to put horseshoes on a horse.
** 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXII, in Far from the Madding Crowd:"Old Jimmy Harris only shoed her last week, and I'd swear to his make among ten thousand."
* (intransitive, chiefly as past participle) To cover an object with a protective layer of material.
    The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.
** 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page iv. 38:And they had been made by the same brand of tire as that which shod the car I sat in!

#### Synonyms

* (to put shoes on): calceate (obsolete)

#### Derived terms

* unshod
* unshoe

#### Related terms

* beshoe

#### Translations

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### See also

* shoe-goose

### Anagrams

* Esho, Hoes, Hose, HEOs, hose, Heos, hoes

## Middle English
### Pronoun

shoe
* Alternative form of sche