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Footy vs Rooty - What's the difference?

footy | rooty |

As adjectives the difference between footy and rooty

is that footy is (uk|dialect|dated) having foots, or settlings while rooty is full of roots.

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)

    rooty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of roots.
    • rooty ground
    (Webster 1913)