pampootie

plural pampooties

1. A traditional shoe, formerly made and worn on the Aran Islands of County Galway, Ireland, consisting of a single piece of untanned hide folded around the foot and stitched with twine or a leather strap.

   [T]hey showed me holes in their own pampooties, or cowskin sandals, and asked me the price of new ones.

   1907, J. M. Synge, The Aran Islands, Part I

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   Quickly, warningfully Buck Mulligan bent down […] "He heard you pissed on his halldoor in Glasthule. He's out in pampooties to murder you."

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

   Sebastian sat on the window sill. Tony leaning against the stove, grinning over his folded arms, a pair of pampooties on his crossed feet.

   1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 275