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footle about — verb To pass time doing unimportant things; messing around. Syn: footle around, mess around, mess about … Wiktionary
footle — foo|tle [ futl ] verb intransitive INFORMAL footle around/about to waste time doing things that are not important or necessary … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
footle — verb footle around/about to waste time doing unimportant things when you should be working … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
footle — v 1. caper, prance, frisk, gambol, be playful or jocose; fool around, Inf. mess around, Sl. screw around, Sl. horse around, act childish; get into mischief, Inf. pull shenanigans, play a prank or trick; be silly, joke, jest, clown, play the… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
footle — 1. verb a) To waste time; to trifle. b) To talk nonsense. Syn: hang around, lallygag, loiter, lollygag, mess about, mill about, mill around … Wiktionary
footle — [19] Footling appears to have originated as a euphemistic equivalent to fucking. It probably comes from a dialectal footer ‘mess about, fuck around’, which may well have been acquired from French foutre ‘copulate with’, a descendant of Latin… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
footle — [19] Footling appears to have originated as a euphemistic equivalent to fucking. It probably comes from a dialectal footer ‘mess about, fuck around’, which may well have been acquired from French foutre ‘copulate with’, a descendant of Latin… … Word origins
muck about/around — (Brit. informal) 1 he was mucking about with his mates: FOOL ABOUT/AROUND, play about/around, clown about/around, footle about/around; informal mess about/around, horse about/around, lark (about/around). 2 someone s been mucking about with the… … Useful english dictionary
hang around — verb be about (Freq. 7) The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square Who is this man that is hanging around the department? • Syn: ↑loiter, ↑lounge, ↑footle, ↑lollygag, ↑loaf, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
mill around — verb 1. be about The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square Who is this man that is hanging around the department? • Syn: ↑loiter, ↑lounge, ↑footle, ↑lollygag, ↑loaf, ↑lallygag … Useful english dictionary
