footer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: foot‧er
• Rhymes: -ʊtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot +‎ -er.

Noun

footer (plural footers)

1. (archaic) A footgoer; pedestrian
2. (computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)
3. (in combination) Something that measures a stated number of feet in some dimension.

   The new boat is a six-footer.

4. (in combination) Someone who has a preference for using a certain foot.

   a right-footer

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “computing sense”): header

Related terms

• left-footer
• right-footer
• seven-footer
• six-footer
• ten-footer

 

Descendants

• → Malay: pengaki (calque)

Translations

pedestrian — see pedestrian

line of information at the bottom of a page

• Czech: zápatí n
• Dutch: voettekst (nl)
• Estonian: jalus
• Finnish: alatunniste
• French: pied de page (fr) m
• German: Fußzeile f
• Hungarian: lábléc (hu), élőláb (hu)
• Indonesian: sukuan, kaki (id)
• Italian: piè (it) m
• Macedonian: подножје n (podnožje)
• Malay: pengaki
• Maori: hiku
• Polish: stopka (pl) f
• Russian: ни́жний колонти́тул m (nížnij kolontítul)
• Spanish: pie de página (es) m
• Swedish: sidfot (sv) c

something that is a stated number of feet in some dimension

• Finnish: -jalkainen

slang: soccer

• Finnish: futis (fi)
• French: foot (fr) m
• Indonesian: bola kaki

Etymology 2

From football +‎ -er (“Oxford -er”).

Noun

footer (uncountable)

1. (chiefly British, slang) Football / soccer.

Etymology 3

18th century. From fouter, foutre (“valueless thing”), possibly from French foutre (“to lecher”), from Latin futuere, present active infinitive of futuō (“I fuck”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”).

Verb

footer (third-person singular simple present footers, present participle footering, simple past and past participle footered)

2. (Ireland and Scotland, slang) To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.

   Synonyms: fidget, fuss, trifle; see also Thesaurus:loiter

Derived terms

• footle

Translations

slang: to meddle

• Finnish: hengailla (fi), chillailla
• French: glander (fr), glandouiller (fr)
• Spanish: perder el tiempo (es)

Anagrams

• foetor, fœtor, refoot, tofore