Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a rustic, a peasant.

[1618		Owles almanacke 40: All the Hobbinols of the Countrey shall arme their high shooes with your metall to encounter with London stones].
[1659		Catterpillers of this nation anatomized 23: They cloath in Russet, like a Country-bore, in his high-shoos, with twists of Hay instead of Boots].
a.1661		‘Chipps of the Old Block’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) ii 18: A High-shooe with his hands in his Poke.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: High shoon, or Clouted-shoon a Country Clown.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: High shoon, or clouted shoon, a country clown.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.