footer

Meanings

Noun

• A footgoer; pedestrian
• A line of information printed at the bottom of a page as identification of the document (compare foot, 13).
• something that is a stated number of feet in some dimension - such as a six-footer.
• someone who has a preference for a certain foot - such as right-footer/left-footer
• Football / soccer.

Verb

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

Related

Opposite words

• header

Origin

• From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot + -er.
• From football + -er
• 18th century. From fouter, foutre, possibly from French foutre ("to lecher"), from Latin futuere, present active infinitive of futuō. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- ("to hit").