footle
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
Definition of footle
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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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.”
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verb
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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.”
- To talk nonsense.
- (archaic, vulgar)To have sex.
noun
- (uncountable)nonsense; foolishness.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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.
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