Footery

[styley]

Has anyone ever heard that expression, as in this is footery work.

[kempie]

It appears to be an Irish/Scottish dialect word for fiddly, tricky so perhaps it originates from Goidelic.

[Quizmonster]

It is possibly from Old French, 'foutre' which was a noun meaning something worthless. Shakespeare used it thus and the idea was that one said "I couldn't give a foutre for..."
Later, the verb form 'to footer' came to mean to trifle or just potter about. The adjective 'footery', meaning fiddling or pointless, grew out of that. Strangely enough, the associated Latin word, 'futuere' means to copulate with which suggests a completely different "I couldn't give a..."!

[Romeo]

In Scotland, a 'footer' is somebody who uses their hand like a foot, in other words a clumsy person. Similarly, a 'footery' job is one that is difficult to manipulate.

[styley]

I would generally use it to describe doing something which is time consuming and fidgety.

[scousejones]

I think it must be connected with the word Footle, which means to waste time or potter around.

[VS Prasad]

foutre - (slang) *****, sperm

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Foutre

Origin: 1585�95; < MF foutre to copulate with, copulate < L futuere.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=foutr e&r=66

1. The verb "foutre": je fous, tu fous, etc... is slang for "faire" (to do, see Ex 1a) or "mettre".

2. As a noun, refers to male's *** (sperm).

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term =foutre