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footy

/ˈfʊti/

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Northern Ireland/ˈfʉte/

footy noun: football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).

Noun

footy (countable and uncountable, plural footies)

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

Adjective

footy (comparative more footy, superlative most footy)

  1. (UK, dated, dialectal) Having foots (settlings).
    • footy oil or molasses
    Synonyms:
    dreggish, dreggy
  2. (UK, dated, dialectal) Of bad quality; mean, poor.
    • [N]obody wants you to shoot crooked. Take good iron to it, and not footy paving-stones.1855, Charles Kingsley, “How Amyas Kept His Christmas Day”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co....
    • 'Those sketches look rather footy,' I said; 'but I had to put something in my notebook.'1911, R. Austin Freeman, chapter XV, in The Eye of Osiris & the Vanishing Man

footy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

footy in Hindi

फूटी

footy in Tamil

ஃபூட்டி, ஃபுட்டி

footy in Marathi

फूटी

footy in Urdu

کمینہ
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footy in Bengali
ফুটি
footy in Telugu
ఫూటీ
footy in Malayalam
ഫൂട്ടി, ഫുട്ടി
footy in Kannada
ಫೂಟಿ
footy in Punjabi
ਫੂਟੀ
footy in Nepali
फुटी, फूटी

Examples of footy in a sentence

  • "He's only a little feller, but he can play footy.
  • Played footy in ours many times and climbed over many walls to recover the ball to the annoyance of neighbours !
  • Another bye round, another dose of Thursday night footy and that means you have to get your tips in early.

All 14 example sentences with footy

Synonyms of footy

Forms of footy

Noun
pluralfooties
alternative formfootie
Adjective
comparativemore footy
superlativemost footy
alternative formfoughty

Plural of footy: footies

Origin of footy

Compare Dutch vochtig. In the senses “insignificant, paltry; poorly kept, shoddy” Merriam-Webster suggests derivation from French foutu, past participle of foutre (“to copulate, fuck, screw”).

Words formed from footy

Words that rhyme with footy

Questions about footy

What does footy mean?
Footy means football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).
What is footy in Hindi?
Footy in Hindi is फूटी. See Footy meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is footy?
Footy can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce footy?
Footy is pronounced /ˈfʊti/.
What is the plural of footy?
The plural of footy is footies.

Words near footy in the dictionary

  1. footworks
  2. footworn
  3. footwrap
  4. footwraps
  5. footwriting
  6. footy
  7. footy tipping
  8. fooyoung
  9. fooyung
  10. foozle
  11. foozled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: footy (page history and authors); footy (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footy (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); footy (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footy (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footy (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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