Green’s Dictionary of Slang

high-shoe n.

also high shoon
[? the heavy footwear favoured by country-dwellers]

a rustic, a peasant.

[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].
[UK] ‘Chipps of the Old Block’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) ii 18: A High-shooe with his hands in his Poke.
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: High shoon, or Clouted-shoon a Country Clown.
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: High shoon, or clouted shoon, a country clown.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.