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A bootee is a short, thick, soft covering for a baby’s foot — more sock than shoe. It is knitted, crocheted, or made of felt, with no hard sole, because the baby is not walking yet. People put bootees on newborns to keep little feet warm in a or a cot. You will also see the spelling bootie; for this baby sense the two spellings point at the same thing. Adults sometimes use booties for fluffy house , or for a woman’s short ankle boot, but that is a different picture. This word is and , the sort of thing a says. It is not a street shoe, and it is not the slang word booty (a person’s behind, or treasure). From the idea of a tiny boot.
嬰兒軟鞋、寶寶毛線鞋（還不會走路的寶寶穿的厚襪鞋，不是真正的鞋子）
組成From boot + -ee (a diminutive suffix: a little boot). Boot comes up through Middle English bote from Old French.
同家族的字
- bootthe bigger, harder covering this is a soft, tiny version of
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
booteenoun/ˈbuːti/
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A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet.
- Take off the baby's bootees before you put her in the crib.
- ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
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A thick sock worn under a wetsuit.
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An overshoe or sock worn to cover dirty shoes or feet.
- Surgeons often slip on bootees before entering the operating room.
- Just above the Sunset Strip, construction workers in white bootees were putting the final touches on another home — a 14,000-square-foot house that Mr. Niami is building for himself.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。