Footy

/ˈfʊti/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable, UK, Ireland) Football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)..

Definitions by Sense

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.
3. (countable, Australia) The ball used in a game of footy.
4. (usually in the plural) A short sock.
5. (slang, countable) A football fan.
6. Footsy (flirting game where two people touch their feet together).
7. (informal) A footjob.
8. Having foots (settlings).

Example Sentences

But footy, especially this kind of footy, transcended family drama — that went without saying — so Erik Falk had of course invited his son.

Me and Charlie and Ben were out there one afternoon, messing around, kicking a footy and stuff, and this girl rode by.

Sam is a real footy, he's always watching it on TV and talking about it.

He didn't even play footy under the table. I kept wishing he would!

[…] playing footy under the table with Bee Amidon finished that for her.

he's getting a footy under the table

footy oil or molasses

[N]obody wants you to shoot crooked. Take good iron to it, and not footy paving-stones.

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Word Forms

• footies
• footie
• more footy
• most footy
• foughty

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