• (RP) IPA: /ˈmɒkəsɪn/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈmɑkəsɪn/

moccasin (plural moccasins)

1. A traditional Native North American shoe, usually without a heel#Noun|heel or sole, made of a piece of deerskin or other soft leather turned up at the edge#Noun|edges which are either stitch#Verb|stitched together at the top of the shoe, or sewn to a vamp#Noun|vamp (a piece covering the top of the foot#Noun|foot). [from early 17th c.]
   • 1826, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter III, in The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, Chestnut-Street, OCLC 1538219 ↗, page 38 ↗:

     At length Chingachgook turned his eyes slowly towards his son, and demanded— / "Do the Maquas dare to leave the print of their moccasins in these woods?" / "I have been on their trail," replied the young Indian, "and know that they number as many as the fingers of my two hands; but they lie hid like cowards."

2. A modern shoe with either a low or no heel resembling a traditional Native American moccasin in that the leather forming the sides of the shoe is stitched at the top.
3. A light beige colour, like that of a moccasin.

    

4. Any of several North American snake#Noun|snakes of the genus Agkistrodon, particularly the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) and the cottonmouth or water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus).

• (shoe) moc

• French: mocassin
• Portuguese: mocassim
• Russian: мокаси́н

• French: mocassin
• Italian: mocassino
• Portuguese: mocassim
• Russian: мокаси́н
• Spanish: mocasín

• Portuguese: mocassim