Shoesies

Water from your cap brim splashes on your nose, / Water in your shoesies, ticklin’ of your toes, / Spurting down your backbone like a leaky drain— / Bathing like a hobo, riding in the rain!

And, girls, they were n’t even dressed warm—their toesies were almost out of their shoesies.

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…

“Oh, look, here are my sunflower shoesies.” She held them up. They were sandals decorated at the toes with huge sunflowers. “Remember when we went to the day spa in the Other Realm? These are the shoesies I wore.”

Here’s an example from one of these commercials: […] From the script: […] CHILD: (IN A SMALL WISTFUL VOICE) Did you bring me some new shoesies, Daddy? CLARK: Ummm … Daddy doesn’t have any money for shoesies these days … because the mean old grocers won’t stock Daddy’s foil.

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!

‘[…] Welcome. You’re soaked. Come in. Come in. Lucy will take your coat. And wet shoesies off, I think.’ Her handshake was bone-dry and feather-soft. The kind so cherished by the Vice Squad Gaffer. She did not acknowledge Suzy. And shoesies? Who says a word like that, these days? […] Mother helped him on with his shoesies and wet coat.