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bootie

bootie

14 4.3
A soft knitted shoe for a baby that covers the foot and sometimes the lower leg
  • noun
  • /ˈbuːti/
: 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
553 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
4 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
695 1.0
bootie
14 4.3
sock
553 1.0
slipper
104 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.