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Boots

Boots is the plural of boot, a type of footwear covering the foot and part of the leg. The ordinary footwear sense can supply a naming reference independently of a human given-name history. A visual comparison with a cat’s paws is an analogy rather than a separate dictionary meaning.

Meaning
Footwear covering the foot and part of the leg
Name or word origin
English word name

Sources and meaning notes

The source documents the footwear word; no particular paw colour is required by the name.

  • Merriam-Webster: boot The cited English dictionary senses; not a claim that every pet with this name was named for that sense

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Catalog grouping: Male. This is a browsing label and does not restrict which cats can use the name.

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