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Fooey vs Footy - What's the difference?

fooey | footy |

As an interjection fooey

is .

As a noun footy is

(uncountable|british) football (association football) (soccer in us, canada, australia, new zealand).

As an adjective footy is

(uk|dialect|dated) having foots, or settlings.

fooey

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • * 1959 , , chapter 4,
  • *:"You see, I knew that's what you were aiming at," he concluded quietly.
  • *:"Fooey ."
    • What if I was. It was a pretty good goal to have, it seemed to me.

    footy

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (footies)
  • (uncountable, British) football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)
  • (uncountable, Australia) The game or sport of football, usually Australian rules football or rugby league, but not soccer
  • (countable, Australia) the ball used in a game of footy.
  • (mostly, plural) A short sock.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, dialect, dated) Having foots, or settlings.
    • footy oil or molasses
  • (UK, dialect, dated) poor; mean
    • (Charles Kingsley)
    (Webster 1913)