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  • noun Plural form of pampootie.

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Examples

  • Slink by in "pampooties" and arrows from Dartmoor?

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919 Various

  • The Irish version, known as "pampooties" reportedly didn't last long, he said.

    No Stories found 2010

  • The Irish version, known as "pampooties" reportedly didn't last long, he said.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • The Irish version, known as "pampooties" reportedly did not last long, he said.

    WalesOnline - Home 2010

  • The Irish version, known as "pampooties" reportedly didn't last long, he said.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2010

  • The tomb proper follows the rules of the mosque, so we wore plastic-and-elastic pampooties over our shoes, and women had to cover their hair.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • The tomb proper follows the rules of the mosque, so we wore plastic-and-elastic pampooties over our shoes, and women had to cover their hair.

    Log of the Eclipse (7) Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • Then followed Prince Ongtong and his choir, superbly gowned in their flowing sarongs, wearing their long Papuan pampooties and followed in turn by a group of instrumentalists playing on conchs, nose-flutes and a species of mouth-organ closely resembling the jew's-harp, but much larger and more penetrating in its quality.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919. Various

  • All the actors want pampooties (the cowskin shoes worn by the Aran people), though I warned them the smell is rather overpowering.

    Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography 1913

  • Boil the sloe gin and quinine to a frazzle, put in the pampooties, cut in thin slices, and take out an insurance policy.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 Various 1898

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  • Seen here, in an article about the oldest leather shoe ever found. (Thanks Prolagus.)

    June 11, 2010