footy

[foo-tee]

adjective

Northern British Dialect.

footier, footiest 

1. poor; worthless; paltry.

footy

/ ˈfʊtɪ /

noun

1. informal

   1. football

   2. ( as modifier )

      footy boots

Word History and Origins

Origin of footy¹

1740–50; variant of foughty musty; compare Old English fūht moist, damp (cognate with German feucht ); -y ¹

Example Sentences

"We've played some really good footy and exposed 20 debutants over the past two years. We've got a lot of guys who have stepped up and we feel we have a good foundation."

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Ms. Garner has long been interested in male power and violence, and footy, as it’s known, is a rough sport.

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Her 20-year devotion to professional footy, she writes, helped her “glimpse what is grand and noble, and admirable and graceful about men.”

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"He went from being just a pretty ordinary country bloke… a normal dude you'd see at the local footy club all the time to quite a strange bloke. He fell down a bit of a rabbit hole and sort of disappeared and went off the radar."

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"We played some terrific footy and to not get the result and go to a series decider hurts everyone."

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