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footle

/ˈfuːtəl/

Rhymes with -uːtəl

Where it comes from

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.

verb footles · footling · footled

To waste time; to trifle. 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.
Similar: arse about, arse around, bludge, bum around, cabbage, clown around, dally, dawdle, dick about, dick around, diddle, dilly-dally
To talk nonsense.
Similar: babble, jabber
archaic, vulgar To have sex.

noun

uncountable nonsense; foolishness.
Similar: nonsense

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verb to talk nonsense

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@misc{footle_2026,
  title = {footle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/footle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}