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Footy
//ˈfʊti// adj, noun, slang
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Adjective
- 1 Having foots (settlings). British, dated, dialectal
"footy oil or molasses"
- 2 Of bad quality; mean, poor. British, dated, dialectal
"[N]obody wants you to shoot crooked. Take good iron to it, and not footy paving-stones."
Noun
- 1 Football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand). Ireland, UK, uncountable
- 2 The game or sport of football, usually Australian rules football or rugby league, but not soccer. Australia, uncountable
"But footy, especially this kind of footy, transcended family drama — that went without saying — so Erik Falk had of course invited his son."
- 3 The ball used in a game of footy. Australia, countable
"Me and Charlie and Ben were out there one afternoon, messing around, kicking a footy and stuff, and this girl rode by."
- 4 A short sock. countable, plural-normally, uncountable
- 5 A football fan. countable, slang
"Sam is a real footy, he's always watching it on TV and talking about it."
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- 6 Footsy (flirting game where two people touch their feet together). countable, uncountable
"He didn't even play footy under the table. I kept wishing he would!"
- 7 A footjob. countable, informal, uncountable
"he's getting a footy under the table"
Etymology
Compare Dutch vochtig.
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