Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A little boot.
- n. A soft boot or glove made of oiled skin, formerly worn by persons affected with gout. That for the hand was a kind of mitten with a partition for the thumb, but none for the fingers.
- n. Same as boot, n., 3.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A small boot or gaiter.
- n. obsolete The boot (torture device).
- n. A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A little boot, legging, or gaiter.
- n. A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout.
Examples
“Observe, too, that this is written with my own right hand, with the bootikin actually upon it, which has no distinction of fingers: so I no longer see any miracle in Buckinger, who was famous for writing without hands or feet; as it was indifferent which one uses, provided one has”
“Take notice, I write so much better without fingers than with, that I advise you to try a bootikin.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘bootikin’.
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A taste for small things
Diminutives
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Boots
Types of boots used as footwear, or in a few cases, to protect the feet and legs of horses.
"...waterleg and gumboots each for Bully Hayes and Hurricane Hartigan..." --Finnegans Wakeankle-jack, jackboot, Hessian boot, Wellington boot, wellie, gumboot, galoshes, goloe-shoes, galosh, overshoe, galoche, galage and 73 more...
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End in -kin
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