footer

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Hyphenation: foot‧er
• Rhymes: -ʊtə(ɹ)

From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot +‎ -er.

footer (plural footers)

1. (archaic) A footgoer; pedestrian
2. (computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)
3. (in combination) Something that measures a stated number of feet in some dimension.

   The new boat is a six-footer.

4. (in combination) Someone who has a preference for using a certain foot.

   a right-footer

• (antonym(s) of “computing sense”): header

• → Malay: pengaki (calque)

From football +‎ -er (“Oxford -er”).

footer (countable and uncountable, plural footers)

1. (chiefly British, slang, uncountable) Football / soccer.
2. (chiefly British, slang, countable) A football.
   • 2016, John Owens, A Month of Sundays

     […] punting a footer around the quad on a beautiful day like today, not frowsting in their studies.

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”).^{[etym3 1][etym3 2]}

footer (third-person singular simple present footers, present participle footering, simple past and past participle footered)

2. (Ireland and Scotland, slang) To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.

   Synonyms: fidget, fuss, trifle; see also Thesaurus:loiter

• footle

• foetor, fœtor, refoot, tofore