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Footy vs Foofy - What's the difference?

footy | foofy |

As adjectives the difference between footy and foofy

is that footy is (uk|dialect|dated) having foots, or settlings while foofy is (slang) excessively frilly or frou-frou, typically in a manner calculated to attract attention to an otherwise unremarkable person or event.

As a noun footy

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

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)

    foofy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (slang) Excessively frilly or frou-frou, typically in a manner calculated to attract attention to an otherwise unremarkable person or event.
  • (slang) Poofy; inflated in a funny way.
  • (slang) Big and fluffy.

    • Quotations

    * 2001. Meg Cabot. The Princess Diaries , HarperCollins, page 107: *: I had to sit down on one of the pink foofy chairs before I fell down.

    References

    * foofy'', in ''Cat Dictionary . * Reuter, Donald F. (2006) Gay-2-Zee: A Dictionary of Sex, Subtext, and the Sublime , page 79.[http://books.google.com/books?id=7FpPbfVRm3MC&pg=PA79&dq=foofy&ei=mbIGSMekOYjgsQOmlOTiCg&sig=_bNDu1QknrnIr-yF4HHUpCnpSMU] English blends