shootie
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
shootie (plural shooties)
- A kind of shoe with a high ankle resembling that of a boot.
- 1987, Climbing, Issues 103-105[1], numbers 103-105, B. Dunaway, page 68:
- SHOOTIES Gift Shooties A friend friend in need is a friend to heed, And comfy feet are friends indeed! When they're tired and weary and warmth is nil, Goosedown Shooties reign king of the hill. When winter drafts chill.
- 1989 November 27, Harold Wallace Ross, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, editors, The New Yorker, Volume 65, Issues 40-45[2], volume 65, numbers 40-45, F-R Publishing Corporation, page 146:
- SHOOTIES - solid black, red, royal or teal. Sizes XS, S, M, L, XL $35.00 (postage and handling incl.) HOT SHOOTIES - Our fun "Zydeco" print on electric blue, black or purple. Sizes XS, S, M, L, XL. $37.00 (postage and handling incl.)
- 2014, Rebecca Langston-George, Allison Crotzer Kimmel, Lori Luster, Liz Sonneborn, “All Dolled Up”, in Fashion Forward: Creating Your Look with the Best of Vintage Style[3], Capstone, →ISBN, page 30:
- Another modern shoe style that gets its look from the '20s is the shootie. Shootie is a combination of the word shoe and boot. Modern shooties come up the foot all the way to the ankle. Vintage ones aren't quite as tall. But they all give a fantastic flapper feel.
- 2015 November 11, Karen Tomsovic, Spare Me the Drama: A Novel[4], Karen Tomsovic:
- But ever since last Sunday, when Roxanne showed up in her cute red shooties and cute red convertible, Stephanie had wondered what kind of woman Roxanne Hunter was.
- 2016 November 30, Lois Richman, chapter 22, in Key West Interlude: Paulette Marshall Mystery Series[5], AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
- She was wearing her newest shooties, but to take them off meant tearing her feet up on the exposed sharp edges of the coral rock below. She tentatively backed away from the streetlights and went into the dark. Actually, she was very proud of her new shooties—they were quite fashionable—as she was also proud of her new hairdo.
- 2021 March 14, Holly Schlesinger, “Mr. Lonely Farts” (9:47 from the start), in Bob's Burgers[6], season 11, episode 14, spoken by Linda Belcher (John Roberts):
- “Ooh, look at those shooties.” “What are shooties?” “You know, they're like if a shoe and a boot had a baby. They're so cute.”