| 单词 |
bootikin |
| 释义 |
bootikin, bootakin|ˈbuːtɪkɪn, -əkɪn|
Also 8 booterkin, 9 bootakin.
[dim. of boot n.3: see -kin. Cf. mannikin.]
1. A soft boot or mitten made of wool and oiled silk, worn as a cure for the gout.
1767H. Walpole in N. & Q. i. I. 232/1 One day's gout, which I cured with the bootikins. 1775― Private Corr. 11 Apr. IV. 8 My biennial visitant the gout, has yielded to the bootikins. 1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (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.
1844W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. xiii. (1855) 122 That species of bootakin, known..by the title of ‘high-lows’. 1885Civ. Serv. Store Price List 160 Infantees, Bootakins, Gaiters, Wool Boots.
3. An instrument of torture; = boot n.3 3.
1727P. Walker A. Peden 26 (Jam.) There will neither thumbikin nor bootikin come here. 1834M. Napier Mem. Napier of Merchiston iv. 159 It was proposed to put him in the bootikins, an infernal instrument of torture. |
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