Definition of Footsie

1. Noun. Common term for the FTSE and the FTSE 100 Index ¹

2. Noun. A flirting game where two people touch each other's feet with their feet, under a table or otherwise concealed place, as a romantic prelude. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Footsie

1. a flirting game played with the feet [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Footsie

footprints
footra
footrace
footraces
footras
footrest
footrests
footrope
footropes
footrot
footrots
footrule
footrules
foots
footshock
footsie (current term)
footsies
footslog
footslogged
footslogger
footsloggers
footslogging
footslogs
footsoldier
footsoldiers
footsore
footsoreness
footsorenesses
footstalk
footstalks

Literary usage of Footsie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises 2001: Focus : Global (2001)
"An example is the Financial Time Stock Exchange index - FTSE or footsie as it is ... The FTSE is launching an ethical investment index called "footsie for ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"It tsi companion book to his well-known " footsie of St. Paul," traces the life and wanderings St. Peter, with much interesting informan! about his times ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"... and is nowhere visible and seen ; the planets hasten with more than the speed of the storm through infinite space, and their footsie])» are not heard, ..."

4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1903)
"... AND SCIENTIFIC BOOKS New and Second-hand. MATHEMATICAL, THEOLOGICAL, AND FOREIGN BOOKS. KEYS AND TRANSLATIONS. BOOKS BOUGHT. 0". ¡footsie & CO. ..."

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