Gillie

1. (in Scotland) a man or boy who attends someone on a hunting or fishing expedition.
2. a type of shoe with laces along the instep and no tongue, used especially for Scottish country dancing.

late 16th century: from Scottish Gaelic gille ‘lad, servant’. The word was also found in the term gilliewetfoot, denoting a servant who carried the chief over a stream, used as a contemptuous name by Lowlanders for the follower of a Highland chief. gillie (sense 2) dates from the 1930s.