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😉 Playful or flirty 🦶 A flirty foot touch 🦶 To touch with feet
footsy

footsy

1 8.8
A playful touch of someone's feet under a table to show interest
  • noun
  • NSFW
: coqueteo
  • As they sat across from each other, they began to play footsy in a flirtatious game.
  • play footsy

Why is you in that man's bed playing Footsie?

Examples

  • Did you ever play footsies with your an ex-boyfriend?

  • Take screensavers as toes touching strangers, feet on the bus, you know, bit of Footsie on the tube.

  • Also, there is the possibility that a Clinton administration can be extorted by those whom the first Clinton administration played some peculiar footsy with.

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  • During the candlelight dinner, he decided to play footsy with his date under the table.

  • At the party, I noticed them playing footsy while chatting and laughing together.

Synonyms

footsie
vsfootsy
  • NSFW
9 7.9

Touching someone else's foot with your foot secretly under a table to be playful

is the same in meaning but spelled with a different ending

How Flirtatious

petting
  • NSFW
6 7.1
footsy
  • NSFW
1 8.8
flirtation
26 3.5

Surface Forms

footsy singular
footsies plural

Morphology

footsy = foot (transparent) = foot + sy

The noun denotes the act associated with feet, clearly derived from 'foot' plus the colloquial '-sy' formation.

Etymology

Footsy comes from foot plus -sy and the phrase 'to play footsie', which means secretly touching someone with your foot under a table. So a footsy is the playful, secret touch of one foot against another.