footy

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  1. Having foots or settlings: as, footy oil, molasses, etc.
  2. Poor; mean; worthless; trashy. I think it would be a very pretty bit of practice to the ship's company to take her out from under that footy battery. Marryat, Peter Simple, xxxiii. Nobody wants you to shoot crooked; take good iron to it, and not footy paving-stones. Kingsley, Westward Ho, ix.
  3. Any one or anything slightly valued. [Local, New Eng.]
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  • "That's as good as I've seen in that area of the game for that length of time in a minor round game of AFL footy, they were fantastic," he said. —  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion
  • Kelli Underwood calling the footy, Julie Rafter having a baby.
  • AFL Action Pack - footy anywhere, anytime Telstra's Next G ™ and 3G Networks. —  AFL Latest News and Broadband
  • Happy New Year to all, hoping 2009 will bring you all you wish for ... such as Sunday afternoon footy (or is it footie?) in the Shamrock. —  Toytown Germany - Germany feed
  • "He had a great game on the weekend, he had 40-odd touches and played some good footy, which is great," he said. —  News
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. from foot + -y.
  2. English dial. and U. S.; variant of fouty, q. v.
 

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