pampootie local Irish.
(pæmˈpuːtɪ)
Also pampooter, pampootee.
[Said in Folk-Lore Journal (1884) II. 261, to have been introduced some two hundred or more years ago by an East Indian ship-captain who settled on the South Isle of Aran: possibly a popular corruption of some form of papoosh, papouche, or Sp. babucha; cf. papouches, pampooties.]
A kind of slipper or sandal of undressed cow-skin sewn together and tied across the instep. Used in the Isles of Aran off the west coast of Ireland.
| 1881 Harper's Mag. 510 Sandals, called pampootees, made of untanned cowhide, universally worn by the inhabitants of the Arran islands. 1884 Folk-Lore Jrnl. II. 261 The Aranites and inhabitants of some of the other Galway islands wear pampooters. 1892 E. Lawless Grania I. ii. 13 Twisting her small pampootie-clad feet round a rope. |