Adjective: footy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more footy |
| Superlative | most footy |
Sample Sentences
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footy oil or molasses
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[N]obody wants you to shoot crooked. Take good iron to it, and not footy paving-stones. [1855, Charles Kingsley, “How Amyas Kept His Christmas Day”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 6:]
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'Those sketches look rather footy,' I said; 'but I had to put something in my notebook.' [1911, R. Austin Freeman, chapter XV, in The Eye of Osiris & the Vanishing Man:]
Adjectives inflected like footy
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
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”). See: Dutch Adjectives '
vochtig', French Adjectives '
foutu'.