footballistn.
/ˈfʊtbɔːlɪst/, U.S. /ˈfʊtˌbɔləst/, /ˈfʊtˌbɑləst/ rare.
A football player; = footballer n.
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1851 W. D. Arnold Football: First Day Sixth Match 10 Up gets a violent Footballist.., and moves ‘that it is high time that Football do instantly and totally commence!’.
1882 Society 28 Oct. 18/1 When a Rugby Union footballist is running with a football..the practice is to collar..him.
1933 Gastonia (N. Carolina) Daily Gaz. 15 Dec. 8/2 They did not recall him as a great footballist.
2012 Bristol Post 27 Oct. 11 A footballist's weekly wage packet (£190,000) and it's yours.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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