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▪ I. footy, a.1 dial. and colloq.|ˈfuːtɪ|
[var. of foughty.]
Paltry, poor, mean, worthless; little and insignificant.
1752W. Dodd Beauties Shaks. I. Pref. 7 Many a critic..has..foisted in some footy emendation of his own. 1833Marryat P. Simple xxxiii, It would be a very pretty bit of practice to the ship's company to take her out from under that footy battery. 1873M. E. Braddon Str. & Pilgr. iii. iv. 260 You could not possibly be married from that footy little house in the Boroughbridge-road. 1890R. Kipling Phant. 'Rickshaw 85 They fires a footy little arrow at us.
▪ II. footy, a.2|ˈfʊtɪ|
[f. foot n. + -y1.]
Having foots or dregs (see foot n. 22).
1864in Webster.
▪ III. footy, -ie, n. colloq.|ˈfʊtɪ|
1. [Jocular dim. of foot n.: see -y6.] Amorous play with the feet; also transf. and fig. Also footsy, footsie, and redupl.
1935S. Lewis It can't happen Here xix. 215 Lindy and you, playing footie-footie these last couple years. 1944G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince (1949) ii. iv. 131, I played footsie with her during Don José's first seduction by Carmen. 1945S. Lewis Cass Timberlane (1946) xl. 291 You got to do something about Bradd and your wife. Town's beginning to talk. They're playing a little too much footie-footie. 1947K. Jaediker Tall, Dark, & Dead ii. 36, I have neither the inclination nor the time to play footie with the police. 1948A. Keith Three came Home iii. 61 The eight guards..lolling in the women's barrack playing footsy-footsy. 1955D. W. Maurer in Publ. Amer. Dialect Soc. xxiv. 136 Sometimes the party out of power retains one or two fixers who play ‘footsie’ with the fixer for the party which is in power. 1959J. Thurber Years with Ross iii. 49 In [a drawing]..showing a man and his wife and another woman at a table..the designing minx was playing footy-footy with the husband. 1959K. Waterhouse Billy Liar iii. 48 This was the sequence and rhythm of daylight love-play as she knew it, a kind of oral footy-footy that was the nearest she could get to intimate conversation. 1963Economist 11 May 537/3 Pakistan is..despite recent games of footsie with Peking, a staunchly anti-communist-ally. 1971Ink 12 June 14/2 The real trouble started when he started playing footsie with the real capitalists.
2. Dim. of football. Esp. Austral. and N.Z.
1940Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Jan. 40/2 When school came out I played footy, and picked a row with a kid and had a fight. 1947‘A. P. Gaskell’ Big Game 14, I cleaned my footy boots. 1949[see clean v. 6 b]. 1949Hilltop (N.Z.) I. 8, I got footie practice tonight. 1966F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 44 A game a footee, a game of football. 1967Southerly XXVII. 297 Evans..strides off with her to ask race-goers, cinema queues and footy fans to sign peace petitions. |