different between footy vs rooty

footy

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

  • footie

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?f?ti/

Noun

footy (countable and uncountable, plural footies)

  1. (uncountable, Britain) Football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)
  2. (uncountable, Australia) The game or sport of football, usually Australian rules football or rugby league, but not soccer
  3. (countable, Australia) The ball used in a game of footy.
  4. (usually in the plural) A short sock.

Etymology 2

Compare Dutch vochtig.

Alternative forms

  • foughty

Adjective

footy (comparative more footy, superlative most footy)

  1. (Britain, dialect, dated) Having foots, or settlings.
  2. (Britain, dialect, dated) poor; mean; of bad quality
    • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! [[s:Westward Ho!/Chapter {{{1}}}|Chapter {{{1}}}]]
      Take good iron to it, and not footy pavingstones

footy From the web:

  • what football games are on today
  • what football games are on tonight
  • what football teams are playing today
  • what football games are on tomorrow
  • what football games are on tv today
  • what football teams are in the playoffs
  • what football games are on right now
  • what football player just died


rooty

English

Etymology

root +? -y

Adjective

rooty (comparative rootier, superlative rootiest)

  1. Full of roots.
    • 2012, Douglas M. Considine, Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia (page 2023)
      Disk plows also are better suited to rough, stony, and rooty ground because the disks ride over the obstructions.

Derived terms

  • rootiness

rooty From the web:

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  • what are rooty toot toots
  • what does rooty mean
  • what does rooty tooty mean
  • what's on rooty hill rsl
  • what is rooty blonde
  • what does rooty poot mean
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