footsie
nounUK /ˈfʊtsi/
Etymology From foot + -sie.
1
A flirting game where two people touch their feet together, under a table or otherwise concealed, as a romantic prelude.
- Play “footsie” with him while dining out together.1995, David and Anne Frahm, How to Make Love With Your Clothes On, Tulsa, Okla.: Honor Books, →ISBN:
- The only downside to this is that you can’t play footsie. The table gets in the way. You'll have to come up with something fresh if you want to invite that wonderful person to finish the evening at your side for a stroll along the banks of the Seine.2010, Thierry Soufflard, The best places to kiss in Paris, Parigramme, →ISBN, page 79:
2
Childish A foot.
- “Mother — Mother will you tie up my shoeies?” Susan’s lisping voice interrupted their conversation. / “Put a footsie up here,” Babs sang out. “’At’s a girl.”1956 June 16, Dulce E. Waller, “Your Family and You”, in The Hamilton Spectator, volume CXI, number 140, Hamilton, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2:
- One of the boys was seated on my white chaise-lounge. I put my five foot five down on the end of the chaise and said, “Move your footsies, Honey, Mother needs to park her tired ass.”1964, Kenneth Marlowe, “I Was a Problem”, in Mr. Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam, Los Angeles, Calif.: Sherbourne Press, →LCCN, page 25:
1 more example
- Dear God, I am thankful for ears that can wiggle For lips that can pucker and bellies that jiggle. For legs that can gallop and gambol and mosey. And thanks for each hair and each footsie and toesie.2014, Jean Fischer, A Star for Me:
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Slang A selfie (self-taken photograph) of one's feet.
- Derived terms
- footsie-wootsies, footsie-wootsie
- Related terms
- feetsy