underfoot

Situated under one's foot or feet.

In the way; placed so as to obstruct or hinder.

We'd go to the Downbeat Club, on Fifty-second Street, and I'd be so underfoot that Billie couldn't miss me.

You ask a lot of questions, Morty. Not very charismatic. It makes you kind of an [belch] under [belch] underfoot figure.

Downtrodden; abject.

Under one's foot or feet.

The workers were all big, burly, hard-hearted men, tromping through the marsh in their heavy boots without sparing so much as a single thought for the masses of tiny frogs they crushed underfoot.

The green turf was velvet underfoot.

In the way; situated so as to obstruct or hinder.

It would be easier to do a big project like that someday when we don't have a bunch of newcomers underfoot.

If you're not going to help, at least get out from underfoot.

A storage compartment that sits below the deck of a boat.

In the early stages of fishing, storage space for wet fish was extremely limited, as three pounds on either side, and most of the staging and underfoots, contained ice, leaving only two empty pounds for stowage.

All too often saithe are put away with an inadequate amount of ice on them, or stowed in deep shelves or underfoots, where they become badly squashed and spoil more rapidly.