[f. prec. sb.] trans. To kick like a football; to kick about with the feet; also fig. Hence Footballing ppl. a.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, Wks. (Grosart), V. 268. They footebald their heades togither.
1627–47. Feltham, Resolves, II. lxxxiii. 427. To see how well meaning simplicity is football’d.
1860. Thornbury, Turkish Shops and Shopkeepers, in All Year Round, No. 42, 11 Feb., 363/1. I knew he longed to spit in my coffee, and to football my unshorn head up and down the knubbly street.
1885. G. Meredith, Diana, I. v. 128–9. She became the Mrs. Warwick of our footballing world.
