Footle
/ˈfuːtəl/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 nonsense; foolishness. uncountable
Verb
- 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 act foolishly, as by talking nonsense wordnet
- 3 To talk nonsense.
- 4 be about a place without any apparent purpose wordnet
- 5 To have sex. archaic, vulgar
Example
More examples"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."
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.