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発音

• IPA: /ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/
• ハイフネーション: foot‧er
• 韻: -ʊtə(ɹ)

語源 1

From 中期英語 footer, equivalent to foot +‎ -er.

名詞

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

反意語

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

関連する語

派生した語

• → Malay: pengaki (calque)

語源 2

From football +‎ -er (“Oxford -er”).

名詞

footer (countable and uncountable, plural footers)

1. (chiefly British, slang, uncountable) Football / soccer.
2. (chiefly British, slang, countable) A football.
   • 2016, John Owens, A Month of Sundays:

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

語源 3

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”).

動詞

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

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

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

派生語

• footle

参照

アナグラム

• foetor, fœtor, refoot, tofore