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Footle

//ˈfuːtəl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    nonsense; foolishness. uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    act foolishly, as by talking nonsense wordnet
  3. 3
    To talk nonsense.
  4. 4
    be about a place without any apparent purpose wordnet
  5. 5
    To have sex. archaic, vulgar

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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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