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Footer
//ˈfʊtə(ɹ)// noun, verb, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A footgoer; pedestrian archaic
- 2 Football / soccer. British, slang, uncountable
- 3 a printed note placed below the text on a printed page wordnet
- 4 A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)
- 5 A football. British, countable, slang
"[…] punting a footer around the quad on a beautiful day like today, not frowsting in their studies."
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- 6 a person who travels by foot wordnet
- 7 Something that measures a stated number of feet in some dimension. in-compounds
"The new boat is a six-footer."
- 8 (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in feet wordnet
- 9 Someone who has a preference for using a certain foot. in-compounds
"a right-footer"
Verb
- 1 To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful. Ireland, Scotland, slang
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot + -er.
Etymology 2
From football + -er (“Oxford -er”).
Etymology 3
18th century. From fouter, foutre (“valueless thing”), possibly from French foutre (“to lecher”), from Latin futuere (“to fuck”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”).
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