jackbooted

From jackboot +‎ -ed.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒækbuːtɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒækbutɪd/, /-təd/, [-ɾəd]
• Hyphenation: jack‧boot‧ed

jackbooted (not comparable)

1. Wearing jackboots.

   a jackbooted thug

   • 1819, Hans Busk, The Banquet, London: Baldwin, Canto III, p. 96,

     For, as the mighty cavalcades approach

     Periwigg’d, Jackbooted, to announce the coach;

     A thousand lamps spontaneously appear,

     Through the long vista—visitors to cheer.—

   • 1914, Percival Christopher Wren, “The Snake Appears”, in Snake and Sword: A Novel, London; New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co. […], OCLC 1896924, part II (The Searing of a Soul), page 43:

     He loved to see him in review uniform—so much more delightful than plain khaki—pale blue, white, and gold, in full panoply of accoutrement, jackbooted and spurred, and with the great turban that made his English face look more English still.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson, Chapter 53,

     In the departure zone he rasped at Lufthansa officials in what seemed very theatrical German. So might he have acted some cardboard jackbooted Prussian in an end-of-term comedy at Hyderabad House near Bridport.

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