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footsie

UK/ˈfʊtsi/

footsie noun: a flirting game where two people touch their feet together, under a table or otherwise concealed, as a romantic prelude.

Noun

footsie (countable and uncountable, plural footsies)

  1. (uncountable) A flirting game where two people touch their feet together, under a table or otherwise concealed, as a romantic prelude.
    • Play “footsie” with him while dining out together.1995, David and Anne Frahm, How to Make Love With Your Clothes On, Tulsa, Okla.: Honor Books, →ISBN
    • The only downside to this is that you can’t play footsie. The table gets in the way. You'll have to come up with something fresh if you want to invite that wonderful person to finish the evening at your side for a stroll along the banks of the Seine.2010, Thierry Soufflard, The best places to kiss in Paris, Parigramme, →ISBN, page 79
  2. (childish, countable) A foot.
    • “Mother — Mother will you tie up my shoeies?” Susan’s lisping voice interrupted their conversation. / “Put a footsie up here,” Babs sang out. “’At’s a girl.”1956 June 16, Dulce E. Waller, “Your Family and You”, in The Hamilton Spectator, volume CXI, number 140, Hamilton, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2
    • One of the boys was seated on my white chaise-lounge. I put my five foot five down on the end of the chaise and said, “Move your footsies, Honey, Mother needs to park her tired ass.”1964, Kenneth Marlowe, “I Was a Problem”, in Mr. Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam, Los Angeles, Calif.: Sherbourne Press, →LCCN, page 25
  3. (countable, slang) A selfie (self-taken photograph) of one's feet.

Proper noun capitalized: Footsie

Footsie

  1. (slang) The FTSE and the FTSE 100 Index.
    • After the July 2005 bombings in London, when the Footsie, after an initial fall, rose to its highest point of the year, the Daily Mail praised its "stellar performance", the Independent its "bulldog spirit".2007 March 19, Peter Wilby, “How to play Footsie with younger readers”, in The Guardian

footsie meaning in Tamil

footsie in Tamil

காற்சீண்டல்

Forms of footsie

pluralfootsies
alternative formfootsy
alternative formfooty

Origin of footsie

From foot + -sie.

Words formed from footsie

Questions about footsie

What does footsie mean?
Footsie means a flirting game where two people touch their feet together, under a table or otherwise concealed, as a romantic prelude.
What is footsie in Tamil?
Footsie in Tamil is காற்சீண்டல். See Footsie meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is footsie?
Footsie can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce footsie?
Footsie is pronounced /ˈfʊtsi/ (UK).
What is the plural of footsie?
The plural of footsie is footsies.

Words near footsie in the dictionary

  1. footshakes
  2. footshock
  3. footshocked
  4. footshocking
  5. footshocks
  6. footsie
  7. footsie-wootsie
  8. footsie-wootsies
  9. footsies
  10. footslave
  11. footslaves

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: footsie (page history and authors); Footsie (page history and authors); footsie (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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