hospital sock

A type of sock, with a treaded sole, provided to patients at hospitals (including mental hospitals), helping them walk on the hard floor without slipping, as patients' shoes are typically removed before they are treated.


pac boot

"My father was a sailboat freak. Homemade fourteen-foot dinghys and scows. He used to build them in the garage in the summer," she said. She pulled on the second loafer, tossed the pac boot onto the floor on the passenger side, stood up and slammed the car door with authority.

1993, John Sandford, Winter Prey, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, pages 118–119:

He felt the touch on his shoulder, turned and it was Gil Sibbernsen, the deputy, dressed for hunting: orange shirt, green wool coat and pants, pac-boots. He was tall as Marvin but big. On his head he wore a red wool collection of flaps and plaid, topped off with a deedlee ball.

1999, Kevin Canty, Nine Below Zero: A Novel, New York, N.Y. […]: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, →ISBN, page 75:

We decided we were looking for a classic pair of winter "pac boots," a term that broadly refers to a style of winter boot with a big, waterproof rubber base that encases most of the exterior foot.

2022 November 1, Eve O'Neill, “The Best Winter Boots”, in Wirecutter, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-21:

A type of winter boot with a waterproof rubber base enveloping the sides.


soccasin

How soon how soon is a day in June when I won't wear shoes on a bright forenoon, won't wear moccasins, won't wear sockasins, only my feet-like kangaroos. KANGAROOS! Can you picture shoes on KANGAROOS

1960, Aileen Fisher, edited by Adrienne Adams, Going Barefoot, illustrated edition, Crowell, →ISBN:

Wally's parachute pants and sockasins were just too weird for his persona, too memorable should certain questions ever be asked.

1997 March 1, Spider Robinson, chapter 3, in Lifehouse, Baen, →ISBN, page 56:

SOCCASINS FOR HYBRID OF SOCK AND MOCCASIN FOR CHILDREN (U.S. CLS. 22 AND 39).

2003 June 17, United States. Patent and Trademark Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks, Volume 1271, Issue 3, volume 1271, number 3, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, page 332:

There was an interlude during which they walked along side by side without talking, Lyla shrouded in he yash and sockasins so that none of her skin showed, and they were able to make it along the sidewalk without trouble because other people took it for granted she too was knee.

2014 April 1, John Brunner, “Seventy-four No Entry”, in The Jagged Orbit, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

“That's exactly what I want,” she said gratefully. “To make things seem normal, just for a while, even though I know they aren't and never will be again. Look, let's go eat right awayso I don't hold you up for too long. I'll get my yash and put on some sockasins so nobody can tell I'm blank walking along the street, and I know some restaurants that don't mind mixed clientele.”

2018 May 15, John Brunner, chapter 70, in The John Brunner Collection Volume One: The Sheep Look Up, The Crucible of Time, and The Jagged Orbit, volume 1, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

Hearing Ken sloshing in the bath, she quickly located her soccasins and made her way downstairs to plan the finer details of her post-funeral gathering. Post. Funeral. Gathering. Just the mere sound of it was delicious to Izzy. And with her head swirling with images of ancient druid rituals, she merrily set up her laptop on the kitchen table.

2021 April 19, Daren Kay, The Brightonians, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN:

Ususally his whip-cracking reflexes had him out of bed in a flash and jerking on his shorts and sockasins while he frantically hunted around for the jar of beard-dissolving cream.

2023 November 9, Fritz Leiber, chapter 1, in Erik Schreiber, editor, The Green Millennium, volume 18, Good Press, →ISBN:


Hessian boot

(fashion) A boot with a low heel and semi-pointed toe, which became popular, initially among the military, in the 18th century.


weejun

Originally a brand name, from Norwegian. Introduced in 1934 by Maine bootmaker G. H. Bass.

15 other women got together and we all wore the dyke outfit of the sixties, which was topsiders or weejun loafers, cordoroy ^([sic]) pants, oxford cloth shirts, either a seersucker or a madras jacket, a pinky ring and a Dunhill lighter.

1980 April 19, Cindy Rizzo, Maxine Feldman, “Give Me That Ol' Lesbianism!”, in Gay Community News, page 8:

Moccasins or weejuns were new options for casual footwear, along with canvas athletic shoes.

2008, Amy T. Peterson, Valerie Hewitt, Heather Vaughan Lee, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through American History, 1900 to the Present, page 279:

(chiefly in the plural) A kind of loafer having a strip of leather across the saddle with a diamond cut-out.


Blunnies

(Australia, slang) Laceless, elastic-sided, ankle-length boots of the kind made by Blundstone Footwear.


namaksin

Coordinate term: geta

A traditional Korean raised wooden clog, made for wearing in muddy or rainy conditions.


socksies

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BUT HIS SOCKSIES WILL NEVER BE SPATS / Roy: You say Winks is ultra-collegiate? / Clyde: Yeh. He shows a complete reaction from plain collegiateness. He’s even wearing garters again.—Ohio Sun Dial.

1924 November 15, I. M. Becile [pseudonym], “Wit and Half-Wit”, in Maurice Ellington, editor, The Centenary Conglomerate, volume 15, number 7, Shreveport, La.: Centenary College, page 4, column 3:

Midges and flies, / Midges and flies / Crawl up my nose, / Down my bra, in my eyes, / They’re driving me crazy, / These flysies and midges. / They’re into my socksies / And into my britches.

1992, Thelma Barlow, “Coping with Pests and Diseases”, in Organic Gardening with Love, London: Robson Books Ltd, published 1994, →ISBN, page 145:

Now I’ll get his little shoes . . . Now his socksies . . .

2001, R[ichard] M[orton] Koster, “Action”, in Glass Mountain, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, section [4], page 132:

Well I’m going there this minute / to the Gramma who is in it / and the Doozie who is barking / and I’m bouncing bouncing bouncing / and I’m flipping off my shoesies / and I’m rolling down my socksies / and I’m sighing / and I’m singing / and I’m . . . / THERE!

2010, Barbara Joosse, Sleepover at Gramma’s House, New York, N.Y.: Philomel Books, →ISBN:

“Biloxi’s in her socksies!” teased Viveca. “Lost her shoe, now what’ll she do?”

2013, Miriam Glassman, Call Me Oklahoma!, New York, N.Y.: Holiday House, →ISBN, page 57:


sockies

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THAT WAS SOME LINE DRIVE, CHARLIE BROWN… IT KNOCKED YOUR SHOESIES AND YOUR SOCKIES RIGHT OFF! MAYBE WE SHOULD COUNT TO SEE IF YOU STILL HAVE ALL YOUR TOESIES…

1979, Charles M[onroe] Schulz, Look Out Behind You, Snoopy: Selected Cartoons from Here Comes the April Fool, Volume 1 (Peanuts), New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Crest, published 1982 April, →ISBN:

Jack was more than willing to find some footwear in my apartment. I didn’t care what shoes he selected, as long as they were from the same pair, and I had stipulated that. Shoes are an important part of my mental health. I know that sounds ridiculous, but you try standing up to the police in your sockies and see how you do.

2008 April, Mary Jane Maffini, The Cluttered Corpse (Charlotte Adams; 2), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 82:

“Down.” Janessa stretched toward the floor, both hands outreached. / “Not yet.” Ashley kissed her daughter’s cheek. “The floor has to dry. Otherwise your sockies will get wet.”

2010, Karen Kingsbury, chapter 13, in Take Three (Above the Line; 3), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, page 151:


Keds

Modified from Peds (the name initially chosen for the brand, which was already trademarked), from Latin pedēs (“feet”), plural of pēs (“foot”).

Now for any mid-century boy worth his Keds, mastery of the pea-shooter was a skill on a par with tree fort construction, delivering a satisfactory nuggy, and frying ants with sunshine and a magnifying glass.

2018 July 11, Jerome Christenson, “An ode to the plastic straw”, in La Crosse Tribune, volume 115, number 57, La Crosse, Wis., →ISSN, page B2, column 4:

Once far from the flooding light, Caleb pulled up short, and her Keds skidded out from under her on the damp pavement.

2022, Dani Pettrey, The Deadly Shallows (Coastal Guardians; 3), Thorndike, Me.: Center Point Large Print, →ISBN, page 417:

As I prepared myself by putting my Keds back on (I still take my shoes off at any opportunity), my mom mumbled something under her breath at my dad.

2022, Jenny Pentland, This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 59:

Plimsolls (canvas shoes with rubber soles) of the American brand Keds.