footle
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See also: föotle
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably variant of footer (“to screw around”), from obsolete fouter (“an act of sexual intercourse”), from French foutre (“to have sexual intercourse”), from Latin futuere.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
footle (third-person singular simple present footles, present participle footling, simple past and past participle footled)
- To waste time; to trifle.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:loiter
- 2021 January 28, Sam Knight, “Adam Curtis Explains It All”, in The New Yorker[1]:
- Curtis says that he works like any other journalist: people and ideas grab him; he wastes time on TikTok, which he adores; he footles about in libraries.
- To talk nonsense.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
To talk nonsense
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Noun[edit]
footle (uncountable)
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
nonsense;foolishness
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