tootsie

plural tootsies · alternative tootsy

1. informalA young woman.
2. childishinformalA toe.

   Take off your shoes and give those tootsies a break!

   2011, Tony Ryan, Martica Heaner, Cross-Training For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN

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   And a hoofer by the name of Buck Wing was gettin' ready to shake his tootsies!

   1936, Curly Howard, Three Stooges, Disorder in the Court (6:43)

   Swedish massage techniques applied to your feet have reflexology effects, too, and give those tootsies the break they need.

   1998, Joan Budilovsky, Eve Adamson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Massage, Penguin, →ISBN, page 216

   2006, James W. Brann, MD, Women's Healthcare Topics.com, Surviving the Joy of Pregnancy, James Brann →ISBN Swollen tootsies can be very uncomfortable, not to mention you may not like looking at them. Toes that look like sausages? That's attractive for babies, but you aren't looking at baby's tootsies.

   Babies are fascinated with their toes. Take advantage of this interest. Join in your baby's fun. Ten Little Tootsies (to “Ten Little Indians”) One little, two little, three little tootsies.

   2009, Vicki Lansky, Games Babies Play: From Birth to Twelve Months, Book Peddlers, →ISBN

   So what's a gal to do when she's rushing about town in pointy-toe stilettos with no time to rest her weary tootsies?

   2010, Esther Blum, Secrets of Gorgeous: Hundreds of Ways to Live Well While Living It Up, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 26

3. archaicinformalA foot, especially that of a woman or child.