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- noun A traditional
shoe , formerly made and worn on the Aran Islands of County Galway,Ireland , consisting of a single piece ofuntanned hide folded around the foot and stitched with twine or a leather strap.
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Examples
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A delicious pampootie fool can be made quite cheaply as follows: 3 lb. of pampooties, 8 oz. of angelica paregoric, 1 imperial pint of sloe gin, 1 gill of ammoniated quinine, 9 oz. of rock salt.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 Various 1898
john commented on the word pampootie
“You can see the imprints of the big toe,” said another team leader, Ron Pinhasi, an archaeologist at University College Cork in Ireland, who said the shoe resembled old Irish pampooties, rawhide slippers.
The New York Times, This Shoe Had Prada Beat by 5,500 Years, by Pam Belluck, June 9, 2010
June 10, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word pampootie
Much older than the Ghillie of Drumacoon Bog, a pre?-10th century leather shoe found in Ireland.
June 10, 2010
reesetee commented on the word pampootie
Would that my shoe had such a lofty title....
June 15, 2010
qms commented on the word pampootie
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Men and women alike wear 'pampooties' - slippers of cowhide, with the hair outside - and walk with the alertness and erectness that learned from rocky ground and the of stiff and high heeled boots.
Martin Ross, Some Irish Yesterdays
It is observed that the people of Aran, who wear seal-skin pumps, or 'pampooties,' are never afliicted with gout.
Royal Irish Academy, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy
He was a big dark-haired, gray-eyed young man, Celt from the top of his narrow black head to the ends of his pampootie-shod feet.
The Living Age
Note
This word is Irish in origin and may ultimately come from the Dutch 'pampoesje,' indoor slipper.
June 13, 2014
qms commented on the word pampootie
For tourists they move their patooties
To tend to their islander duties,
And, playing to type,
While smoking a pipe
They stroll in their knits and pampooties.
June 13, 2014