NEW VOCABU-LARRY ABOUT SHOES
Updated 05/07/20
Some shoes and situations where shoes go wrong are so unique that there are no words to describe them....
Or at least there weren't any until now. Here are a few words to fill in the gap.
- Acklet (N) - A shoelace where the AGLET came off
- Aglet (N) - The hard tip on the end of a shoelace *
- Anklesnare (N) - A strap that goes around your ankle and is connected to the shoe sole only at the back
- Ankletrap (N) - A strap that goes around your ankle and is connected to the shoe sole only at the sides
- Ankoosh (A) - Gooey and ankle-deep
- Argulet (N) - The metal tip on the end of a strap that goes through a buckle
- Arrolated (N) - A design made of BEADULUMS on a moccasin, with little arrows all around
- Aww (IJ) - What you feel filled with when your shoes are awful (or is that AWW-ful - Antonym of
"awe")
- Backward Shoe (N) - A shoe with the toe of the sole being thicker and higher than the heel of the sole
- Balletknot (N) - A knot you can't untie in the ties of the ballet slippers you are wearing
- Bandal (N) - A sandal consisting of a sole and one single band across the vamp
- Bankslump (V) - When the bank of a river suddenly caves in, leaving you standing in water or mud
- Bannipad (N) - A stuffed rim around the hole where the foot goes into the shoe
- Bannipadesh (N) - The fluffy stuff that comes out of a broken BANNIPAD
- Bargoo (N) - Stuff on the floor at a tavern that your shoes stick to (See MESSYSHOESETTS)
- Beaduloss (N) - When the thread breaks and all of the BEADULUMS come off of the moccasin and make a big
mess on the floor
- Beadulums (N) - The individual tiny beads that make up the designs on Indian moccasins
- Birkenstuck (A) - Describing when your footbed sandals are stuck in mud and your foot comes out without
the shoe, but won't come out of the mud with the shoe on
- Birkensuck (N) - The vacuum that occurs between your foot and your footbed shoe
- Birkule (N) - One of the many tiny granules that make up a Birkenstock sole
- Blahnic Depth (N) - The specification for each model of shoe or boot of the deepest water or mud can be
gently stepped in without any liquid getting inside by going over the top (see SOGNIC DEPTH)
- Bootfalooter (N) - The fancy stitched design on a cowboy boot
- Bootwaddle (N) - The awkward gait people get when walking in knee-high boots
- Bootwick (V) - The act of mud wicking up between a boot and a jeans pantleg that is worn outside the
boot, so the entire outside surface of the boot and the inside surface of the pantleg become coated with
mud all the way around the leg and clear up to the top of the boot (See PANTZOOK)
- Bronsog (N) - Wrinkles in leather caused by repeatedly getting the shoes or boots wet
- Brownage (V) - To determine the age of a shoe by how much it has turned a dingy brown
- Bucklestuck (A) - When your shoe buckles are so caked with mud that you can't open them
- Buckletink (S) - The sound made by shoe buckles that are slightly lose
- Bucklock (N) - The state of your shoe buckles locking together as you try to uncross your legs
- Bucksludge (N) - Mud deep enough to drown buckskin boots
- Camoufleather (N) - The patchwork of different colored leathers used to make some fashion shoes
- Camouspots (N) - Stains on suede shoes
- Chainlace (V) - Getting a shoelace caught in a bicycle chain
- Chinese Ooze (N) - Cloth Chinese shoes filled with cheese sauce
- Chortleography (N) - The art of composing dance steps that are funny
- Cintandals (N) - Sandals with clear plastic straps
- Clapclops (N) - Shoes with absolutely flat wooden sole bottoms
- Clartcatcher (N) - Any hole in a shoe sole that can hold a MUDCOOKIE
- Claviclogs (N) - Little nails with hemispherical heads that hold leather to wood
- Clemhoppers (N) - The kind of shoes Clem Cadiddlehopper wore
- Clinkclogs (N) - Clogging shoes with noisy taps on them
- Clogoosh (V) - When liquid mud comes in the backs of your clogs when you step in a puddle
- Clogpoit (S) - The sound of pulling bare feet from tight fitting clogs
- Clomptonite (N) - What they make loud shoe heels that go "clomp-clomp" out of
- Clovergrief (N) - Clover stains on white shoes
- Clumfert (N) - An extra step in the stairs that materializes only in the dark *
- Concreep (V) - How wet concrete sneaks inside your work boots
- Corrodium (N) - What dead batteries are made of - Often drips on shoes in closets where transistor radios
are stored
- Corrodium Warning (N) - "Do not lose this radio in closet while installing dead batteries."
- Cradule (N) - The U-shaped channel in the heel of a footbed shoe
- Cribbles (N) - Little vertical leather "bars" around the toe of the shoe that connect a flat top of the
toe to the sole - The spaces between them perform the function of SHOEDRAINS
- Croquet Heel (N) - Any shoe heel big enough to be used as a croquet mallet
- Crudwelt (N) - The rim, where the upper is sewn to the sole externally, that catches and keeps all kinds of
crud
- Cuddlefluff (N) - The soft fluffy stuff inside houseslippers
- Dangtoe (N) - The toe you keep stubbing
- Deetracks (N) - D-shaped tracks left by heels (Note that they point backwards to the direction in which
the person who left them walked)
- Dipplers (N) - Shoes tied on a car for a wedding that became entangled in the bumper of the car, so they
swing back and forth in the air instead of dragging on the road
- Disastandal (N) - A sandal with a broken strap that won't stay on
- Dribbloot (N) - When you get in water or mud deeper than the tops of your boots, and some dribbles inside
- Droidboots (N) - Hard plastic boots that won't flex
- Droidnaughts (N) - Hard plastic boots that won't flex and are too big
- Droidshoes (N) - Hard plastic shoes that won't flex
- Drownpour (N) - A rain hard enough that most people's shoes sink under the water
- Drowze Shoes (N) - Shoes so comfortable that they make you sleepy
- Dryerdents (N) - The result of drying clogs in the clothes dryer
- Duckdrowner (N) - A rainstorm too deep for your duck shoes
- Duckribs (N) - The raised tubular portions of the toes of duck boots or duck shoes separating the DUCKWEBS
- Duckwebs (N) - The places in between DUCKRIBS
- Duobandal (N) - A sandal consisting of a sole and two bands across the vamp
- Earitated (N) - Bothered by bunny slippers
- Eightshoe (N) - A shoe with a dogbone shaped sole, which leaves prints that resemble a figure 8
- Emuleate (A) - Looking like mule shoes while not being mule shoes
- Engooth (V) - To surround or submerge in GOOTH
- Espadrains (N) - The holes in the toes or sides of espadrilles to let rainwater out (See RAINHOLES, SHOEDRAINS)
- Eyegone (N) - The hole left behind where the shoelace eyelet in your athletic shoe fell out
- Fauxbaux (N - pronounced: "fo-bo") - Strange shoe decorations that look like bows, but obviously
aren't
- Fauxboot (N) - A shoe that looks like a boot until the pantcuff is raised, and the shoe is shown to
actually be a clog
- Fauxwelt (N pronounced: "fo-welt") - Fake stitching around the sole of a plastic boot
- Flatula (N) - A high heel that is very thin in the toe-heel direction, but is wide
- Flatulooze (N) - When a FLATULA sinks deep into ground that other shoes don't sink into
- Fleckule (N) - An individual piece of glitter on a pair of FLECKULIZERS
- Fleckulizers (N) - Glitter covered shoes
- Flinkers (N) - Shoes that flash red lights when the wearer walks (See LEDULATORS)
- Flopoffs (N) - Shoes so worn out they won't stay on
- Flopoots (N) - What's left after the stuffed liners of some kinds of winter boots fall apart
- Flopouts (N) - Shoes sole liners that have come unglued
- Foolaces (N) - The "unnecessary" shoelaces on backless sneaker clogs
- Footprint advertizing (N) - Messages put on PRINTSOLES by the shoe manufacturer to leave ads wherever the
shoes leave footprints
- Foozers (N) - Shoes artfully colored so it looks like they have mud on them when they are clean
- Fumbula (N) - A little cylindrical plastic shoelace cover for infant shoes
- Gapples (N) - Little slots in sandals that let air go in between the straps
- Glimulators (N) - Reflective patches on shoes that make just the shoes, not the jogger, visible to the
driver of a passing car (See GLOWLETICS, FLINKERS)
- Glimulize (V) - What a driver does to find out what in the world he is seeing, instead of avoiding the
jogger with the GLIMULATORS
- Globulous (A) - Describing shoes with absolutely no angular edges
- Glomules (N) - Globs of gooey stuff
- Glopiad (A) - A contest with messy substances of any kind
- Glopulant (A) - Decorated with GLOMULES
- Glottalytic (A) - Of a shoe with a very short tongue
- Glowletics (N) - Athletic shoes that glow in the dark
- Glump (V) - The action of a sticky substance completely enclosing, covering, and coating a shoe
(See GOOTH)
- Gluppage (U) - The amount of mud that sticks to a shoe
- Glurk (S) - Someone suddenly sitting on a couch or bed, causing someone else sitting there who was drinking
to spill the drink
- Gondoofers (N) - Women's shoes that are shaped roughly like railroad hopper cars
- Goochy (N) - Wet, very soft, and yielding (as of leather or mud}
- Goolaces (N) - Muddy shoelaces that are impossible to untie
- Goonifers (N) - Big shoes that leave tracks in the shape of big bare feet
- Goonut (N) - A stylish hole through a shoe heel that gets filled with anything gooey you happen to step in
- Gooptade (N) - Any place too close to the mud-wrestling pit
- Gooseroids (N) - Metal caps on the toes of boots
- Gooth (N) - Thick, sticky goo
- Gopterate (V) - To switch to oxfords or other conservative shoes
- Gossify (V) - To let mud solidify on shoes
- Guccious (A) - Expensive
- Guempleate (A) - Patterned with many intricate designs made entirely of tiny holes
- Gunkade (N) - Any place where you will get gunk on your shoes, no matter which way you go
- Hackulates (N) - The mesh ventilators in running shoes that come loose and flap about (See NETULUS)
- Halftoed (A) - Covering (as a shoe toe does) half of the toes of the foot and showing the other toes
- Heavyize (V) - To get enough mud stuck on shoes to make them weigh quite a bit more than normal
- Heelcup (N) - The back of a sandal that completely encloses the heel, but nothing else
- Hoofboots (N) - Boots that have thick heavy soles that get wider at the bottoms, so they look like
horse hooves (See NODDLEWOMPERS)
- Hoppulites (N) - Black circles on the bottoms of white socks caused by dancing without shoes
- Hornagitated (A) - "Ouch! Watch your stupid mammoth slippers!"
- Horndary (A) - Wondering where your shoehorn is
- Huaraunchy (A) - Describing huaraches full of mud
- Inkula (N) - A tennis shoe with phone numbers written on it
- Jalopy Boots (N) - Boots needed to protect the feet from the rust holes in the floor of the car
- Jellyboots (N) - No, not clear boots, but boots full of jelly
- Kedulas (N) - The useless eyelets near the soles of canvas tennis shoes
- Kedspot (N) - The round spot on the side of an old-style tennis shoe with the brand name (Also P. F. FLOOTER)
- Kedstop (N) - The fingers on an escalator that keep shoes from going into the machinery
- Kiltaglets (N) - Ends on shoelaces that have little fringes on them (See AGLET)
- Kiltringes (N) - Little decorative fringes pointing down from the tongues of shoes
- Klompenoosh (S) - The sounds of wooden mud shoes in mud
- LEDulators (N) - Flashing lights on shoes that help the cops chase the crook who stole them (See FLINKERS)
- Lincoln Clogs (N) - Wooden shoes with notches in them that can lock together
- Linedipplers (N) - A pair of shoes tied together and thrown over a telephone line so they hang and swing
in the wind
- Mary Johns (N) - Mary Jane shoes with heavy cogged soles
- Mary Strain Newtons (U) - The scientifically measured breaking point of the strap on a Mary Jane shoe
- Mecktoplasm (N) - Smelly brown stuff that runs out of leather shoes that have been in deep water
- Messhaz (N) - Any hazard of getting messy
- Messyshoesetts (N) - The place where your shoes get stuck to the floor, due to food and beer residue on
everything (See BARGOO)
- Messaslippy (N) - The place where you slip and fall on the floor, due to food and beer residue on everything
- Messouri (N) - A place where your shoes acquire a sour smell that reeks and reeks for weeks and weeks
- Messterpiece (N) - 1. Antonym of masterpiece
2. The result of liberals trying to fix the economy
3. The result of a giant food fight.
4. The result of a ruined recording studio session
- Mistensate (N) - A misty film that condenses on shoes in fog
- Moccafringe (N) - The KILTRINGES on a moccasin
- Moccasquish (V) - To walk in mud or on wet grass in soft-soled moccasins
- Muccasin (N) - A moccasin that has been MOCCASQUISHED
- Muck Luck (N) - The determining factor of whether or not you get your shoe back after losing it in deep mud
- Muckit (N) - A glob of mucky goo stuck on a shoe
- Mucksuck (S) - The sound of your best shoes being swallowed by mud
- Mucqualize (V) - To intentionally get mud inside the shoe with your foot, so its suction will break the
suction of the mud the shoe is stuck in, so you can get the shoe out of the mud
- Mudcookie (N) - A casting made of mud that falls from the tread on a shoe sole *
- Mudport (N) - A decorative hole strategically placed in a shoe to let mud inside
- Mudsquirter (N) - A hole in a shoe that squirts mud a great distance when a foot is inserted into the
mud-filled shoe
- Mudstrainer (N) - A decorative hole that lets water, but not mud, inside a shoe
- Murcophosic (A) - Dusty with lint
- Napboots (N) - Boots that have nap like a shag rug covering the uppers
- Natulized (A) - Disintegrating (as leather or canvas does}
- Netulus (N) - A tiny net that is part of a shoe
- Niddlecrepes (N) - The single bumps that collectively make up a crepe sole
- Nikkosipes (N) - Little tiny grooves in shoe soles to aid traction in wet weather
- Noddlewompers (N) - Shoe soles that stick out at least an inch around the feet in all directions
(See HOOFBOOTS, RIMSHOE, RIMSOLE)
- Nudpickers (N) - People who pick at little tears in shoes until the shoes fall apart
- Octopoids (N) - Shoes with eight large cleats on the bottom, separated by crossed grooves
- Ootferters (N) - Egglike bumps on the insides of the soles of some shoes
- Oozuckers (N) - Shoes that tend to fill up with mud even when the mud isn't very deep
- P. F. Flooter (N) - The big rubber round spot found on both sides of the ankles of some old tennis shoes
(Also KEDSPOT)
- Pairalyze (V) - To search a closet full of shoes to find a matching pair
- Pantzook (N) - when walking in mud, to have mud climb up to the knees of your pants in the area between
your legs because the pantlegs rub on your muddy shoes and on each other (Cf: PANTZOOP in the
NEW VOCABU-LARRY FOR MIXING page - See BOOTWICK)
- Past Tennis (A) - Describing tennis shoes that are worn out
- Pedalpoozers (N) - Pants with loops that go under the feet - They keep socks from coming off during mud
wading
- Perfectfit (A) - Describing the ugliest shoe in the store
- Phootny (N) - A ruffled sock
- Printsoles (N) - Soles with backwards lettering on them that leave FOOTPRINT ADVERTISING on the ground
- Puddingtoes (N) - What the victim of an April Fool shoe joke feels
- Pumples (N) - Rings left on the feet from wearing pumps
- Pwatchers (N) - Little vent holes near the toes of shoes that look like eyes
- Pweltites (N) - Little nodules around the seam where the sole and the uppers of a shoe are fastened
together
- Quudd (S) - The sound made by mud-wrestling
- Rainholes (N) - Little holes on top of the toe of the shoe that let the rainwater in (See SHOEDRAINS)
- Rimshoe (N) - A shoe with a sole that sticks out from the uppers at least 1/2" in all directions
(See RIMSOLE, NODDLEWOMPERS)
- Rimsole (N) - A sole that sticks out from the uppers at least 1/2" from the rest of the shoe in all
directions (See RIMSHOE)
- Roperows (N) - The arrangement of the coils on a rope-soled shoe
- Rollysoles (N) - Curved sole bottoms that roll on the ground as the person walks
- Sandettes (N) - Sandals with very tiny straps
- Sandtraples (N) - Sandals that let beach sand INTO the shoe, but won't let it OUT again
- Scroton (N) - A surface-mount power outlet box sticking up out of the floor to trip you
- Shoeblort (N) - A water soaked shoe that has fallen apart because the glue dissolved
- Shoeburst (V) - To burst the seams of a shoe open by trying to insert a foot into a tight-fitting shoe
completely filled with mud, pudding, or some other viscous substance - The weight of the person inserting
the foot is usually sufficient to cause this type of failure
- Shoedrains (N) - Little holes around the edge of the shoe just above the sole that let the rainwater
out (See RAINHOLES, ESPADRAINS)
- Shoeflaps (N) - The sides of tie shoes, when the laces are removed to make them become slip-on shoes
- Shoemagnets (N) - Velvet shoes that attract dust, crumbs, and everything else unsightly
- Shoenoid (N) - A woman more worried about how her shoes look than about the issue at hand
- Shooze (N) - Goo filling a shoe that squirts out when you put your foot in.
- Slingflop (N) - A slingback strap of a shoe that falls to the sole, because it won't stay up by itself
- Slip-Off Shoes (N) - Shoes that fall off if you attempt to run in them
- Slipflop (N) - What happens when a person tries to walk in muddy flipflops
- Smiloclogs (N) - Clogs with smiley faces on them
- Smuckit (N) - A shoe that makes loud noises when walked in mud (See MUCKSUCK)
- Snipplers (N) - Shoes that have been modified by cutting off unwanted parts
- Sockdals (N) - Socks with shoe soles attached
- Snads (N) - Little ornaments on shoes that collect yarns, hairs, and all other kinds of cruft
- Sockeaters (N) - Sock-eating shoes (shoes that socks disappear down into while worn}
- Sockfoozle (N) - Sock residue that collects inside shoes
- Sockgnawer (N) - The manufacturer's brand name label sewn on the sole of the shoe that wears socks out
- Socksuck (V) - To walk in mud, mustard, or other viscous substance in sock feet
- Soduk (N) - The award given to the worst shoes of the year (Kudos spelled backwards}
- Sognic Depth (N) - The specification for each model of shoe or boot of the deepest water or mud can be
gently stepped in without any liquid getting inside by soaking through shoe parts (see BLAHNIC DEPTH)
- Spatflaps (N) - The exaggerated double tongues on some athletic shoes
- Speckules (N) - Little bits of grass stuck to shoes after mowing a lawn
- Spedophile (N) - A person who goes nuts over SPEEDIUMS
- Speediums (N) - Go-faster stripes on shoes
- Speediumsucker (N) - A person who believes the SPEEDIUMS actually make the shoes go faster
- Spepples (N) - Little nubs on the insides of the soles of plastic shoes, designed to massage feet
- Spids (N) - Little knots in leather thongs, which are found sticking out of moccasins and boat shoes
- Spidulators (N) - Leather thongs that go into and out of holes around the heels of moccasins and boat shoes
- Spimfoozle (N) - The crud other than sock fuzz that collects inside shoes
- Spiketrap (N) - Any hole in a floor or object that spike heels can become trapped in
- Splatform Shoes (N) - 1. Shoes with platforms so high that most people will fall while trying to walk in
them
2. Muddy platform shoes so slippery that most people fall while trying to walk in them
- Spoodclops (N) - The cleats on the bottom of a pair of SPOODSHOES
- Spoodshoes (N) - Wooden Chinese clogs with soles that are shaped like the little flat wood spoons that
come with little tubs of ice cream
- Sportooze (N) - Goo on marching boots after the band plays halftime at a muddy football game
- Sprainites (N) - Gopher holes in a football field
- Spackers (N) - Shoes with flat thin leather soles
- Spackleshoes (N) - Shoes worn while patching plaster walls, covered with little white crumbly spots
- Specklers (N) - Shoes made with little color dots all over them
- Sproingheel (N) - The heel of an athletic shoe that looks like there are four little springs between the
bottom of the heel and the insole
- Spuck (S) - The sound of a shoe coming unstuck from thick mud
- Spuk Heel (N) - A spike heel that sinks into and gets stuck in many things (linoleum floors, bathroom
scales, mud, asphalt, etc}
- Spukulooze (N) - Where a SPUK HEEL sinks deep into ground that other shoes don't sink into
- Squirge (V) - To slip and fall because mud inside the shoe makes it slippery, and impossible to stand up
- Squishpond (N) - The mosh pit at an outdoor rock concert
- Squit (S) - The cartoon sound added when a pie or other food hits a pair of shoes in a TV sitcom (there is
very little actual sound from that action}
- Squoot (V) - To walk while wiggling toes in boots completely filled with mud
- Squudge (V) - To walk while wiggling toes in shoes completely filled with mud
- Stillettomite (N) - A broken-off spike heel upside down on the pavement
- Stillettotite (N) - A broken-off spike heel stuck in a drain grating
- Stiltetto Shoes (N) - Shoes with spike heels and platforms that raise the wearer more than 10 inches off
the ground
- Strapopolitan (A) - Describing a sandal with too many straps to easily count
- Stubnail (N) - A nail sticking just enough above the floor surface to catch the sole of your shoe and
trip you
- Stucktion (N) - The force that keeps your shoe stuck firmly in mud
- Suckbreak (V) - Twisting the foot sideways to break the suction when the shoe is stuck in mud
- Sucksplot (V) - When your attempt to SUCKBREAK makes you fall in the mud
- Suedeswaths (N) - The patterns left on shoes by the suede brush
- Symmetrippers (N) - A pair of identical slippers that have no leftness or rightness to them
- Tarsux (V) - The process of tar removing shoes and socks from feet (as in the movie "Home Alone"}
- Tazidigested (A) - Eaten by a "Taz" slipper
- Ted (N) - The stuffing inside an insulated boot (Cf: Teddy Bear)
- Tee-Scrap (N) - What's left when an elastic tee-strap tears off from one side of the shoe
- That sinking feeling (PH) - Going into a yard after a rain unsure if the ground is too soft to support you
- Toecap (N) - A closed toe of a shoe that covers the toes of the foot, but not the sides of the foot
- Toeshooze (N) - Muddy ballet slippers
- Toewrinkels (N) - Folding lines in shoe leather left by the flexing of the toes during walking
- Tonguecave (N) - The hole the tongue of your shoe falls into when there is no foot holding it up
- Tonguesqueezer (N) - The little bulb on the tongue of an inflatable shoe
- Treadites (N) - Shoes with soles made from old tires (See WAFFLESTOMPER)
- Tribandal (N) - A sandal consisting of a sole and three bands across the vamp
- Tundrooze (N) - Ground that has just thawed from cold weather - looks firm, but swallows shoes whole
- Twadflapper (N) - A loose fastening strap on a shoe that has lost the mating piece the strap is supposed
to fit
- Vampicing (N) - The result of dropping a piece of cake on your shoe
- Velcrud (N) - All of the stuff and fuzz that stays stuck in your Velcro straps
- Velstuck (N) - When your Velcro straps get stuck to the rug or your sweater
- Voit where prohibited (PH) - An area where no shoes are allowed except gym shoes
- Wadeometer (U) - The deepest the water or mud can be (in meters) without getting inside your boots
- Wafflestomper (N) - A shoe sole that looks like it was made in a waffle iron *
- Weighters (N) - What you think of the weight of your waders after wearing them for hours
- Wovandals (N) - Sandals with woven straps over the toes
- Yabbadabbashoes (N) - Shoes used to propel a vehicle through a hole in its floor
- Zorflaps (S) - The sounds of the soles of Zorries slapping against the feet when the wearer walks
KEY:
- A - Adjective
- AV - Adverb
- IJ - Interjection
- N - Noun
- PH - Phrase
- S - Sound
- U - Unit of measure
- V - Verb
* These are the words coined by others.
- Aglet (N) - The hard tip on the end of a shoelace
- Clumfert (N) - An extra step that trips you only in the dark
- Mudcookie (N) - A casting made of mud that falls from the tread on a shoe sole
- Wafflestomper (N) - A shoe sole that looks like it was made in a waffle iron
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