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Roots vs Foots - What's the difference?

roots | foots |

As nouns the difference between roots and foots

is that roots is while foots is the settlings of oil, molasses, etc, at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.

As a verb foots is

(foot).

roots

English

Noun

(head)
  • English plurals
    • The roots of a tree provide it with water.
  • Ancestors
    • I have both Irish and German roots .
  • Beginnings
    • Jazz has its roots in blues.

    See also

    * root * rootsy

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    foots

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (foot)

    • Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.
    • (Simmonds)
    (Webster 1913)

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