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bootie

bootie

1 4.3
A soft knitted shoe for a baby that covers the foot and sometimes the lower leg
  • noun
  • /ˈbuːti/
translation icon : botita
  • Just some like cute little bathrobes, little hats and little like booties and socks and swaddles.
  • baby bootie

OK, Are you ready these little booties?

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Examples

  • Toward the rear, I see a familiar old lady knitting a baby's bootie.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • You're quivering in your little booties, I can tell.

  • This poor baby bootie.

    Ted 2 (2015)

  • These adorable booties, cat ring and white tea are from Joyous.

  • Bootie.

    American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005)

  • -My little baby-bootie boy.

    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

  • Trevor notices that what the Old Woman is knitting is a baby's bootie.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The mother gently slipped the warm bootie onto her baby's foot to keep it cozy.

  • After the party, I found a tiny pink bootie left behind on the floor.

  • The grandmother proudly gifted her granddaughter a pair of hand-knitted booties for the new baby.

Synonyms

sock
vsbootie
545 1.0

A soft covering for your foot and lower part of the leg worn inside a shoe

is made for babies as a soft foot covering usually worn without shoes
baby shoe
vsbootie
3 1.0

A small soft shoe for a baby that lets the feet move

is a softer, warmer infant foot covering used mainly for comfort not protection

How Warm

boot
574 1.0
bootie
1 4.3
sock
545 1.0
slipper
136 1.0

Surface Forms

bootie singular
booties plural

Morphology

bootie = boot (transparent) = boot + ie

Meaning 'small or diminutive boot' is directly derived from 'boot' + diminutive suffix '-ie', which clearly accounts for the baby slipper sense.

Etymology

Bootie comes from boot plus the small ending -ie, so it literally means 'little boot'. That image helps you remember a soft, tiny boot that covers a baby's foot and keeps it warm.