Definition of "footy"

footy¹

/ˈfʊti/

noun
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.
  Quotations
  But footy, especially this kind of footy, transcended family drama — that went without saying — so Erik Falk had of course invited his son.
  2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 118
3. (countable, Australia) The ball used in a game of footy.
  Quotations
  Me and Charlie and Ben were out there one afternoon, messing around, kicking a footy and stuff, and this girl rode by.
  2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 105
4. (usually in the plural) A short sock.
5. A football fan.

footy²

adjective
comparative more footy, superlative most footy
1. Having foots or settlings.
2. Of bad quality; mean, poor.
  Quotations
  [N]obody wants you to shoot crooked. Take good iron to it, and not footy paving-stones.
  1855, Charles Kingsley, “How Amyas Kept His Christmas Day”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., page 6
  'Those sketches look rather footy,' I said; 'but I had to put something in my notebook.'
  1911, R. Austin Freeman, chapter XV, in The Eye of Osiris & the Vanishing Man