footsie
Use Footsie in a sentence
si noun Informal.
Idioms 1.
Sometimes, footsies. the act of flirting or sharing a surreptitious intimacy.
2.
play footsie/footsies with,
a.
to flirt with, especially by clandestinely touching someone's foot or leg; be slyly or furtively intimate with.
b.
to seek advantage from, especially by discreet or stealthy means; curry favor with.
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| —n | |
| informal flirtation involving the touching together of feet, knees, etc (esp in the phrase play footsie) | |
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Footsie
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| Footsie (ˈfʊtsɪ) | |
| —n | |
| an informal name for Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index | |
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Example sentences
He has even had her reveal jealousy when she finds that the fellow is playing a bit of footsie with his lusty blond nurse.
As a leader, you are responsible to not play loose and footsie with the truth.
Then he has another year to play footsie and get his hands on the key materials for nuclear invulnerability.
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