🦶 A foot or toe 😊 A sweet name

tootsy

1 9.7

A playful word children use for a foot or toe

noun
/ˈtuːtsi/

Baby Talk

: piececita

After running around all day, my tootsies felt sore and tired.

Examples

He painted his toenails bright pink, making his tootsies look playful and fun.
The child slipped and landed on her tootsy, giggling as she got up.
LLORT: Wait for me, tootsy toes!

A Troll in Central Park (1994)

Synonyms

tootsie

vstootsy

Baby Talk

3 8.5

A small foot, often a child's, said in a playful way

is more childish in tone rather than affectionate

Surface Forms

tootsy singular

tootsies plural

Morphology

tootsy = toe (transparent) = toe + sy

Formed as a diminutive/pet-word from 'toe' with the familiar pet-forming suffix '-sy', so the reference to a toe is directly recoverable.

Etymology

Tootsy comes from the simple word toe ('toe') plus a playful ending like -sie, so it started as baby talk for a small or cute foot and is still used that way.