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English
Etymology
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
Verb
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: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.
- Synonyms: babble, jabber
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Noun
footle (uncountable)
- nonsense; foolishness.
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