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footy¹

  • /ˈfʊti/
  • /ˈfʉte/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • /fʉtɪ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • /fʉti/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Rhymes with -ʊti

noun footies · footie

  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.
  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.
  4. New Zealand, uncountable Rugby union or rugby league.
  5. countable, plural normally, uncountable 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. countable, uncountable Footsy (flirting game where two people touch their feet together). He didn't even play footy under the table. I kept wishing he would!
  8. countable, informal, uncountable A footjob. he's getting a footy under the table

footy²

Where it comes from

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”).

adjective more footy · most footy · foughty

  1. UK, dated, dialectal Having foots (settlings). footy oil or molasses

    Similar: 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.

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Closest in meaning: soccer football, football, touch footy, soccer, foosball, foot-ball, tackle football, beautiful game, fitba, international football, rugby football, aussie rules, rugby, free kick, footgolf, footbrawl

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"footy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/footy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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footy. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/footy

Chicago

"footy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/footy.

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@misc{footy_2026,
  title = {footy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/footy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}