footy (countable and uncountable, plural 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.
(usually, in the plural) A short sock.
footy (comparative more footy, superlative most footy)
(UK, dialect, dated) Having foots, or settlings.
(UK, dialect, dated) poor; mean
Source: Wiktionary
Foot"y, a.
1. Having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc. [Eng.]
2. Poor; mean. [Prov. Eng.] C. Kingsley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
