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"ref": "1995, David and Anne Frahm, How to Make Love With Your Clothes On, Tulsa, Okla.: Honor Books",
"text": "Play “footsie” with him while dining out together.",
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"ref": "2010, Thierry Soufflard, The best places to kiss in Paris, Parigramme, page 79",
"text": "The only downside to this is that you can’t play footsie. The table gets in the way. You'll have to come up with something fresh if you want to invite that wonderful person to finish the evening at your side for a stroll along the banks of the Seine.",
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"A flirting game where two people touch their feet together, under a table or otherwise concealed, as a romantic prelude."
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"word": "pedalflirt"
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"sense": "flirting game",
"word": "faire du pied"
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"sense": "flirting game",
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"note": "no equivalent term in Polish",
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"word": "but see flirt ze stopami"
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"word": "заи́грывание"
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"word": "tåflört"
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"ref": "1964, Kenneth Marlowe, “I Was a Problem”, in Mr. Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam, Los Angeles, Calif.: Sherbourne Press, →LCCN, page 25",
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"ref": "2014, Jean Fischer, A Star for Me",
"text": "Dear God, I am thankful for ears that can wiggle For lips that can pucker and bellies that jiggle. For legs that can gallop and gambol and mosey. And thanks for each hair and each footsie and toesie.",
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},
{
"ref": "2014, Jean Fischer, A Star for Me",
"text": "Dear God, I am thankful for ears that can wiggle For lips that can pucker and bellies that jiggle. For legs that can gallop and gambol and mosey. And thanks for each hair and each footsie and toesie.",
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "flirting game",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "pedalflirt"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "flirting game",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "benflirt"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "flirting game",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "voetjevrijen"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "flirting game",
"word": "jalkapeli"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "flirting game",
"word": "faire du pied"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "flirting game",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Füßeln"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "flirting game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "piedino"
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "flirting game",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
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"word": "benflørting"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"note": "no equivalent term in Polish",
"sense": "flirting game"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "flirting game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "but see flirt ze stopami"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaígryvanije",
"sense": "flirting game",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "заи́грывание"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "flirting game",
"word": "tåflört"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "flirting game",
"word": "tåsex"
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],
"word": "footsie"
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