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单词 bootikin
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bootikinn.

/ˈbuːtɪkɪn//ˈbuːtəkɪn/
Forms: Also 1700s booterkin, 1800s bootakin.
Etymology: diminutive of boot n.3: see -kin suffix. Compare mannikin.
1. A soft boot or mitten made of wool and oiled silk, worn as a cure for the gout.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical garments > [noun] > other garments
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1767 H. Walpole in Notes & Queries i. I. 232/1 One day's gout, which I cured with the bootikins.
1775 H. Walpole Corr. 11 Apr. IV. 8 My biennial visitant the gout, has yielded to the bootikins.
1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) IV. 221 Booterkins made with oiled Silk, as they confine the perspirable matter, keep the part moist and supple.
2. A small kind of boot; a knitted legging or gaiter with feet, worn out of doors by infants.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > low, short, or small
botewc1424
bootikin1844
bottekin1882
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > other
straw boots1707
bootikin1885
1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xiii. 233 That species of bootakin, known..by the expressive title of ‘high-lows’.
1885 Civ. Serv. Store Price List 160 Infantees, Bootakins, Gaiters, Wool Boots.
3. An instrument of torture; = boot n.3 3.
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society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > boot
boota1522
boot1580
Scotch boot1604
oiled boota1640
bootikin1727
scarpine1855
1727 P. Walker Life A. Peden 26 (Jam.) There will neither thumbikin nor bootikin come here.
1834 M. Napier Mem. Napier of Merchistoun iv. 159 It was proposed to put him in the bootikins, an infernal instrument of torture.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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