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Half baby shoe, half pirate plunder, fully dependent on context to avoid awkwardness.
means A soft, lightweight shoe for an infant, or alternatively a snug slipper-style covering for the foot — though spelled this way it also doubles as slang for the buttocks or for stolen treasure.
from This is the diminutive of "boot," which entered English from Old French "bote," a sturdy word for footwear of uncertain deeper origin. The "-ie/-y" ending makes it small and tender, fit for tiny feet. The "plunder" meaning is a separate word entirely — "booty" comes from Old French "butin," itself borrowed from a Germanic root meaning "division of spoils" — and the cheeky body-part sense is yet another track, a 20th-century variant of "booty" likely related to "botty" and "bottom." Three roads, one spelling, endless confusion.
- knitting staple
- First baby gift grandmothers master, soles optional
- naval slang
- British marines call rookie recruits bootnecks, shortened to bootie
- pirate share
- Booty meant looted treasure split among the crew
- shoe cousin
- Ankle-high bootie blurs line between shoe and boot
bootie collins — funk bass guitarist, son of george clinton, played with parliament-funkadelic since 1974
bootie san francisco — annual mashup music festival in san francisco started in 2002, mixes pop songs with electronic beats