footsie

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1. uncountableA 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

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   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. childishcountableA 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

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   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

   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

3. countableslangA selfie (self-taken photograph) of one's feet.

1. slangbusinessThe FTSE and the FTSE 100 Index.

   After the July 2005 bombings in London, when the Footsie, after an initial fall, rose to its highest point of the year, the Daily Mail praised its "stellar performance", the Independent its "bulldog spirit".

   2007 March 19, Peter Wilby, “How to play Footsie with younger readers”, in The Guardian