a. and sb.
A. adj. Sore as to the feet, having sore feet.
1719. De Foe Crusoe (L.). The heat of the ground made me footsore.
1814. Sporting Mag., XLIII. 83. He was extremely foot-sore.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xix. 238. The dogs were in excellent condition too, no longer foot-sore, but well rested and completely broken, including the four from the Esquimaux, animals of great power and size.
B. sb. A complaint of the foot, nonce-use.
1874. E. A. Freeman, in W. R. W. Stephens, Life & Lett. (1895), II. 84. I had some kind of foot-sore, rheumatic gout, I believe they call it, which tormented my left foot for two or three days, so that one night I had to crawl upstairs on my knees like Caesar.
Hence Footsoreness.
1849. Southey, Common-pl. Bk., Ser. II. 646. Cure for Foot-soreness.
1884. Besant, Childr. Gibeon, II. xvii. ‘I am weary and footsore,’ he said, with a sigh. ‘Weariness I complain not of, and footsoreness is my righteous punishment.’
