bootee
USBOO-tee/ˈbuti/
Pluralbootees
- 1A soft, usually knitted woolen shoe made for a baby or a small pet.
She found a single blue bootee in the box of baby clothes she had kept.
The tiny dog trotted around the apartment in a set of knitted bootees.
- 2An overshoe or sock put on to cover shoes or feet that are dirty.
Visitors to the clean room must pull a plastic bootee over each shoe.
The movers slipped on disposable bootees before carrying the piano across the white rug.
Similarovershoe
- 3A heavy sock worn on the foot beneath a wetsuit.
She tugged the legs of her wetsuit down over a thick bootee on each foot.
Without bootees under their wetsuits, the surfers' feet went numb within an hour.
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Origin
Formed from boot + -ee, a diminutive suffix, so literally "a little boot".