footy

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʊti/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊti

Noun

footy (countable and uncountable, plural footies)

  1. (uncountable, UK, Ireland) Football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).
  2. (uncountable, Australia) The game or sport of football, usually Australian rules football or rugby league, but not soccer.
    • 2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 118:
      But footy, especially this kind of footy, transcended family drama — that went without saying — so Erik Falk had of course invited his son.
  3. (countable, Australia) The ball used in a game of footy.
    • 2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 105:
      Me and Charlie and Ben were out there one afternoon, messing around, kicking a footy and stuff, and this girl rode by.
  4. (usually in the plural) A short sock.
  5. (slang, countable) A football fan.
    Sam is a real footy, he's always watching it on TV and talking about it.
  6. Footsy (flirting game where two people touch their feet together).
    • 1932, Movie Mirror, volume 3, page 76:
      He didn't even play footy under the table. I kept wishing he would!
    • 1994, Tim Page, Dawn Powell at Her Best, page 361:
      […] playing footy under the table with Bee Amidon finished that for her.
  7. (informal) A footjob.
    he's getting a footy under the table
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Compare Dutch vochtig.

Alternative forms

  • foughty

Adjective

footy (comparative more footy, superlative most footy) (British, dialectal, dated)

  1. Having foots (settlings).[1]
    Synonyms: dreggish, dreggy
    footy oil or molasses
  2. Of bad quality; mean, poor.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “footy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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