bootee
USBOO-tee/ˈbuti/
Pluralbootees
- 1A soft shoe, usually knitted from wool, for a baby or a small pet.
Grandma knitted a pair of yellow bootees for the new baby.
The baby kicked off one bootee and lost it under the couch.
- 2A cover or sock that you pull over dirty shoes or feet.
Please put a bootee over each shoe before you walk on the new carpet.
The painters wore paper bootees so they would not track mud into the house.
Similarovershoe
- 3A thick sock you wear on your foot under a wetsuit.
Before the dive, he pulled a thick bootee onto each foot.
Her bootees kept her toes warm under her wetsuit in the cold lake.
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Origin
It is boot + -ee, an ending that means a small one: a little boot.