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

to footsy

9.0
To touch someone with your feet under a table to show interest
  • verb
  • /ˈfʊtsi/
  • NSFW
: coquetear
  • He was surprised when someone started to footsy him at the dinner party.

Examples

  • They laughed quietly as they played footsy during the long family lunch.

  • During the meeting, she tried to footsy with her partner under the table.

  • They were footsying under the table during dinner.

  • I noticed they footsied at the café yesterday.

  • She playfully touched her partner's foot under the table while they were having dinner, trying to footsy him.

  • At the restaurant, he couldn't stop smiling when she began to footsy him, playfully nudging his foot with hers.

  • During the movie, they started to footsy each other discreetly, enjoying the flirtatious moment under their shared blanket.

Synonyms

to pinch someone's tushie
vsto footsy
  • Offensive
9.9

To squeeze someone's bottom playfully to show affection or flirt

is a hidden, lighter touch made with feet under a table than hand contact

How Flirtatious

to grope
  • Offensive
45 7.4
to footsy
  • NSFW
9.0
to touch
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

footsy infinitive
footsied past
footsied past participle
footsying present participle
footsies third person singular

Morphology

footsy = foot (semi-transparent) = foot + sy

The word is clearly built on 'foot,' but the playful/flirtatious sense is a specialized extension rather than a fully predictable literal meaning.

Etymology

Footsy comes from foot plus -sy, from the phrase 'to play footsie', meaning to touch someone with your foot under a table. So to footsy someone is to give that secret, flirty touch with your foot.