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footballese

footballese noun: the jargon associated with the sport of football.

Noun

footballese (uncountable)

  1. The jargon associated with the sport of football.

Origin of footballese

From football + -ese.

Questions about footballese

What does footballese mean?
Footballese means the jargon associated with the sport of football.
What part of speech is footballese?
Footballese is a noun.

Words near footballese in the dictionary

  1. football-players
  2. footballed
  3. footballene
  4. footballer
  5. footballers
  6. footballese
  7. footballfish
  8. footballfishes
  9. footballification
  10. footballified
  11. footballifies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footballese (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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