shoestring
English
noun
Definitions
- (US) The string or lace used to secure the shoe to the foot; a shoelace.
- A tight budget; very little money.
- (cooking) A long narrow cut of a food; a julienne.
Etymology
Compound from English shoe (type of horseshoe) + English string.
Origin
English
string
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Muleshoe English
- Shoemaker English
- bandstring English
- beshoe English
- bitstring English
- bonnetstring English
- bootstring English
- bowstring English
- bytestring English
- capstring English
- checkstring English
- destring English
- docstring English
- drawstring English
- eyestring English
- fiddlestring English
- greenshoe English
- gumshoe English
- gutstring English
- hairstring English
- hamstring English
- handshoe English
- harpstring English
- hatstring English
- heartstring English
- horseshoe English
- houseshoe English
- hyperstring English
- interstring English
- latchstring English
- lifestring English
- linestring English
- metastring English
- ministring English
- mis-shoe English
- nanostring English
- nonshoe English
- overshoe English
- oxshoe English
- protostring English
- pullstring English
- pursestring English
- reshoe English
- restring English
- sandshoe English
- shoe English
- shoe-leather English
- shoebag English
- shoebeam English
- shoebill English
- shoebite English
- shoeblack English
- shoebox English
- shoecare English
- shoeful English
- shoegasm English
- shoegaze English
- shoegazer English
- shoegazing English
- shoegear English
- shoehorn English
- shoelacing English
- shoeless English
- shoelike English
- shoemaker English
- shoemaking English
- shoemender English
- shoepeg English
- shoeplay English
- shoeprint English
- shoer English
- shoeshine English
- shoesmith English
- shoesole English
- shoestore English
- shoeth English
- shoetop English
- shoetree English
- shoewear English
- shoey English
- shoon English
- slipshoe English
- slipstring English
- snowshoe English
- string English
- stringable English
- stringbacks English
- stringbed English
- stringboard English
- stringcourse English
- stringer English
- stringification English
- stringify English
- stringization English
- stringize English
- stringless English
- stringlike English
- stringline English
- stringology English
- stringpiece English
- stringy English
- substring English
- superstring English
- trackshoe English
- turnshoe English
- undershoe English
- unshoe English
- unstring English
- wordstring English
- workshoe English
- Schuh German
- String German
- string Dutch, Flemish
- string French
- string Portuguese
- string Swedish
- ストリング Japanese
- sho Middle English
- string Middle English
- ŝuo Esperanto
- शू Hindi
- ရှူးဖိနပ် Burmese
- string Tok Pisin
- su Tok Pisin
- susu Sranan Tongo
- shoe
- shoer
- shoon
- shoey
- unshoe
- shoeth
- oxshoe
- beshoe
- reshoe
- string
- shoeful
- gumshoe
- shoepeg
- shoetop
- stringy
- shoebox
- shoebag
- nonshoe
- shoebite
- Muleshoe
- shoelike
- workshoe
- stringer
- snowshoe
- shoegasm
- shoebill
- shoetree
- shoegear
- shoeplay
- shoewear
- destring
- unstring
- shoehorn
- turnshoe
- slipshoe
- sandshoe
- handshoe
- overshoe
- shoecare
- shoegaze
- restring
- shoesole
- shoeless
- mis-shoe
- shoebeam
- gutstring
- shoeprint
- horseshoe
- hatstring
- trackshoe
- capstring
- stringify
- shoegazer
- shoestore
- substring
- shoeshine
- stringize
- stringbed
- eyestring
- shoeblack
- shoesmith
- bowstring
- docstring
- greenshoe
- bitstring
- shoemaker
- houseshoe
- hamstring
- undershoe
- Shoemaker
- shoelacing
- stringlike
- harpstring
- stringline
- hairstring
- bootstring
- stringable
- bandstring
- shoemender
- stringless
- shoegazing
- metastring
- nanostring
- wordstring
- linestring
- slipstring
- lifestring
- pullstring
- shoemaking
- drawstring
- ministring
- bytestring
- interstring
- stringpiece
- heartstring
- superstring
- protostring
- checkstring
- latchstring
- stringology
- pursestring
- hyperstring
- stringbacks
- stringboard
- fiddlestring
- bonnetstring
- shoe-leather
- stringcourse
- stringization
- stringification