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shoesies

shoesies noun: shoes.

Noun

shoesies pl (plural only)

  1. (childish, plural, plural-only) Shoes.
    • Water from your cap brim splashes on your nose, / Water in your shoesies, ticklin’ of your toes, / Spurting down your backbone like a leaky drain— / Bathing like a hobo, riding in the rain!1898 October 27, “The Road Rider”, in The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review, volume XXII, number 11 / 557, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill., section “Mud Larking”, page 32, column 1
    • And, girls, they were n’t even dressed warm—their toesies were almost out of their shoesies.1910 December, Charlotte Sedgwick, “Judy’s Idea”, in St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volume XXXVIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: Frederick Warne & Co....

Examples of shoesies in a sentence

  • THAT WAS SOME LINE DRIVE, CHARLIE BROWN… IT KNOCKED YOUR SHOESIES AND YOUR SOCKIES RIGHT OFF!1979, Charles M[onroe] Schulz, Look Out Behind You, Snoopy: Selected Cartoons from Here Comes the April Fool, Volume 1 (Peanuts), New York...
  • “Oh, look, here are my sunflower shoesies.” She held them up.1999, Nancy Holder, Up, Up, and Away, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 77:
  • Here’s an example from one of these commercials: […] From the script: […] CHILD: (IN A SMALL WISTFUL VOICE) Did you bring me some new shoesies, Daddy?2009, Ron Ploof, “Trust and Faith”, in Read This First: The Executive’s Guide to New Media—From Blogs to Social Networks, New York, N.Y....
  • And wet shoesies off, I think.’ Her handshake was bone-dry and feather-soft.2010, Jonathan Lewis, Into Darkness, Arrow Books, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 233 and 241:

Origin of shoesies

From shoe + -sies.

Questions about shoesies

What does shoesies mean?
Shoesies means shoes.
How do you use shoesies in a sentence?
THAT WAS SOME LINE DRIVE, CHARLIE BROWN… IT KNOCKED YOUR SHOESIES AND YOUR SOCKIES RIGHT OFF!
What part of speech is shoesies?
Shoesies is a noun.

Words near shoesies in the dictionary

  1. shoeshiner
  2. shoeshiners
  3. shoeshines
  4. shoeshop
  5. shoeshops
  6. shoesies
  7. shoesize
  8. shoesizes
  9. shoesmith
  10. shoesmiths
  11. shoesole

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