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footer

noun

  1. HTML element
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English football English -er English footer From football + -er (“Oxford -er”).

  1. Football / soccer.
  2. A football.

    […] punting a footer around the quad on a beautiful day like today, not frowsting in their studies.

verb

Etymology: 18th century. From fouter, foutre (“valueless thing”), possibly from French foutre (“to lecher”), from Latin futuere (“to fuck”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”).

  1. To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.