footslave

English

Etymology

From foot +‎ slave.

Noun

footslave (plural footslaves)

1. A slave that travels by foot carrying items for his master.
   • 1915, The Conservator, page 22:

     We'll be on the way again : stop us here, this minute: we'll be on the way again : Throw us down : we'll get up : choke the common road with debris: we'll be on the way again : Murder us: play us as the footslaves of kings:

   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN:

     […] and the dogs trotting with their tongues aloll and footslaves following half naked and sorely burdened […]

   • 2018, H Lamb, Alexander of Macedon: The Journey to the World's End:

     They filled the hours of the day for him, calling him before the first light, to run with the foot slave over a measured course before he tasted food.

2. A submissive partner in sadomasochistic practices who licks or fondles the feet of the dominant partner.
   • 2003, Simon H. Sheppard, Kinkorama: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Perversion, page 35:

     Recently I took a footslave ( a different one — the world being full , as we all know , of eager bottoms ) to a party at a local dungeon .

   • 2005, Best Gay Erotica, page 55:

     This cute new boy seemed like he ' d be a lot of fun , but like I said , the footslave was real insecure .