footer1
/ˈfʊtə
/noun
1 [in combination] A person or thing of a specified number of feet in length or height: a tall, sturdy six-footer
1.1A kick of a football performed with a specified foot: he hammered a low left-footer past the keeper...
- Frandsen skims the angle with a scorching right footer after a determined run.
- This time they turned to hooker Slattery and he nonchalantly slotted a left footer through the posts from the 22 metre line.
2 variant of footy.
3A line or block of text appearing at the foot of each page of a book or document. Compare with header (sense 4).Once you're authenticated, you can use the special menu items that appear in the footer of every page to make the configuration changes you desire....
- I added a ‘Sitemap’ link to all page footers, upgraded the noframes entrance to something slightly more useful and wondered whether it was enough.
- Menu bars use either graphics or text links while footers almost exclusively use text links.
Rhymes
footer2
/ˈfʊtə/verb [no object] Scottish
Fiddle about: he nodded and started to footer with his watch...
- Give this girl a gimmick, leave her to fiddle and footer about with it into the wee small hours and, in no time, she's smitten.
- In the meantime, fiddling and footering is about the best he can do.
- This opportunity is staring us in the face and we are all footering around.
Origin
Mid 18th century: variant of obsolete foutre 'valueless thing, contemptible person', from Old French.